Maggie Gee was chosen as one of Granta's original 'Best Young British Novelists'. She has published many novels to great acclaim, including My Cleaner and The Flood, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize. She is the first female Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, and lives in London.

'A fantastic book.' Mariella Frostrup; 'Excellent... intelligent, driven, imaginative, obsessive yet still gracious, one of our best.Exciting stuff.' Fay Weldon; 'Up there with Orwell and Huxley.' Jeremy Paxman; 'A gem of a book.' Rose Tremain; 'A rattling good page-turning yarn.' George Melly; 'Maggie Gee is one of our most ambitious and challenging novelists.' Sunday Times; 'She writes elegantly, unsentimentally, expertly.' The Independent; 'Mordandly witty, unsparing, politically savvy, a beautifully clear and bracing nasty vision.' TLS

Maggie Gee was chosen as one of Granta's original 'Best Young British Novelists'. She has published many novels to great acclaim, including My Cleaner and The Flood, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize. She is the first female Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, and lives in London.

'A fantastic book.' Mariella Frostrup; 'Excellent... intelligent, driven, imaginative, obsessive yet still gracious, one of our best.Exciting stuff.' Fay Weldon; 'Up there with Orwell and Huxley.' Jeremy Paxman; 'A gem of a book.' Rose Tremain; 'A rattling good page-turning yarn.' George Melly; 'Maggie Gee is one of our most ambitious and challenging novelists.' Sunday Times; 'She writes elegantly, unsentimentally, expertly.' The Independent; 'Mordandly witty, unsparing, politically savvy, a beautifully clear and bracing nasty vision.' TLS

Maggie Gee was chosen as one of Granta's original 'Best Young British Novelists'. She has published many novels to great acclaim, including My Cleaner and The Flood, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize. She is the first female Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, and lives in London.

'A fantastic book.' Mariella Frostrup; 'Excellent... intelligent, driven, imaginative, obsessive yet still gracious, one of our best.Exciting stuff.' Fay Weldon; 'Up there with Orwell and Huxley.' Jeremy Paxman; 'A gem of a book.' Rose Tremain; 'A rattling good page-turning yarn.' George Melly; 'Maggie Gee is one of our most ambitious and challenging novelists.' Sunday Times; 'She writes elegantly, unsentimentally, expertly.' The Independent; 'Mordandly witty, unsparing, politically savvy, a beautifully clear and bracing nasty vision.' TLS