Roberta Kray was born in Southport in 1959.  She worked in publishing and media research in London for fifteen years.  In early 1996 she met Reggie Kray and they married the following year.  Her first book, A Man Apart, was a biography of her husband.  Through her marriage to Reggie Roberta has a unique insight into the inner conflicts of a long-term prisoner. She lives in Norfolk.