The lawyer and author on London’s canals, an epic novel about the siege of Stalingrad and the joys of dancing on her own
Marina Wheeler is a British lawyer specialising in public and human rights law and an author. Born in 1964 in Berlin, she first studied at the European School of Brussels and later at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. She has four children with her ex-husband, Boris Johnson. Wheeler’s new book, The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab (Hodder & Stoughton) details her family’s past and the forced fleeing of their home in the Punjab and is out now.