Simon Van Booy is the author of seven books including The Secret Lives of People in Love, andthe international bestseller The Illusion of Separateness. He is the editor of three philosophy books and has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Financial Times, and the BBC. His work has been translated into seventeen languages. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.

‘There is a huge amount of skill involved in crafting these stories so perfectly – all perfectly formed and ready to eat like a delicious morsel of food, Simon Van Booy is a true master, and one whose work I'm very eager to sample more of in the future…For future reading I'll recommend Father's Day – by the same author, it's an incredibly moving read about the power of the relationship between parents and children, and is an in-depth and hugely skilled character study of the two characters whom the novel revolves around’.

Simon Van Booy is the author of seven books including The Secret Lives of People in Love, andthe international bestseller The Illusion of Separateness. He is the editor of three philosophy books and has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Financial Times, and the BBC. His work has been translated into seventeen languages. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.

‘There is a huge amount of skill involved in crafting these stories so perfectly – all perfectly formed and ready to eat like a delicious morsel of food, Simon Van Booy is a true master, and one whose work I'm very eager to sample more of in the future…For future reading I'll recommend Father's Day – by the same author, it's an incredibly moving read about the power of the relationship between parents and children, and is an in-depth and hugely skilled character study of the two characters whom the novel revolves around’.

Simon Van Booy is the author of seven books including The Secret Lives of People in Love, andthe international bestseller The Illusion of Separateness. He is the editor of three philosophy books and has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Financial Times, and the BBC. His work has been translated into seventeen languages. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.

‘There is a huge amount of skill involved in crafting these stories so perfectly – all perfectly formed and ready to eat like a delicious morsel of food, Simon Van Booy is a true master, and one whose work I'm very eager to sample more of in the future…For future reading I'll recommend Father's Day – by the same author, it's an incredibly moving read about the power of the relationship between parents and children, and is an in-depth and hugely skilled character study of the two characters whom the novel revolves around’.