Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, née de la Pasture (1890-1943), was a prolific English author who wrote under the pseudonym E. M. Delafield. She is best known for her largely autobiographical Diary of a Provincial Lady , which took the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle-class Englishwoman living mostly in a Devon village of the 1930s.

Sophy Mason Comes Back is a ghost story. An English governess in France disappeared mysteriously 41 years previously and was never seen again. The psychic, Fenwick, discovers the gruesome tale of her fate.