Maurice Leitch was born in County Antrim and educated in Belfast. His first novel, The Liberty Lad, was published un 1965, followed by Poor Lazarus, winner of the 1969 Guardian Fiction Prize. Silver's City won the Whitbread Prize for Fiction in 1981. He has also written radio plays, short stories, television screenplays and documentaries. He lives in North London with his family.

"Leitch's prose style is reminiscent of Graham Greene, and Hugo's transformation from pampered child to scheming bully is genuinely chilling" -- Clover Hughes Observer

Maurice Leitch was born in County Antrim and educated in Belfast. His first novel, The Liberty Lad, was published un 1965, followed by Poor Lazarus, winner of the 1969 Guardian Fiction Prize. Silver's City won the Whitbread Prize for Fiction in 1981. He has also written radio plays, short stories, television screenplays and documentaries. He lives in North London with his family.

"Leitch's prose style is reminiscent of Graham Greene, and Hugo's transformation from pampered child to scheming bully is genuinely chilling" -- Clover Hughes Observer

Maurice Leitch was born in County Antrim and educated in Belfast. His first novel, The Liberty Lad, was published un 1965, followed by Poor Lazarus, winner of the 1969 Guardian Fiction Prize. Silver's City won the Whitbread Prize for Fiction in 1981. He has also written radio plays, short stories, television screenplays and documentaries. He lives in North London with his family.

"Leitch's prose style is reminiscent of Graham Greene, and Hugo's transformation from pampered child to scheming bully is genuinely chilling" -- Clover Hughes Observer