Nick Archer, Paediatric cardiologist (retired) and Former Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, and University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, and Nicky Manning, Fetal Cardiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK, and Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, UK

After completing postgraduate training in paediatrics and perinatal paediatrics, Dr Archer trained in paediatric cardiology and became a consultant paediatric cardiologist in Oxford. His main research interests are in neonatal and fetal cardiology and he has written and taught in these fields in UK and abroad. He has recently retired and lives in Oxfordshire.

Nicky Manning qualified in London in 1978 and after working in London and Norwich, started working in the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford in November 1980, initially in Prenatal Diagnosis with an interest in clinical genetics. Since 1994 she has specialised in Fetal Cardiology but continues to work in Fetal Medicine and also maintains links with general prenatal diagnosis.

"Review from previous edition With huge practical experience of the subject, the authors...are amply qualified to write what is an amazing little book." - Dr Lawrence Impey, Consultant in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK

"Their combined perspective is apparent in the broad based and logical approach to the subject, which reflects a real life practical experience not just of fetal cardiac diagnosis, but crucially also of the wider clinical assessment which is so important in counselling." - Ian Sullivan, Consultant Cardiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK