Michelle Lovric is the author of four other novels - The Floating Book (winner of a London Arts Award and chosen as a WH Smith Read of the Week), The Remedy (Longlisted for the Orange Prize 2005), The Book of Human Skin (a TV Book Club pick in 2011), and, most recently, The True and Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters, as well as four children’s books. Her book Love Letters: An Anthology of Passion was a New York Times bestseller. She divides her time between London and Venice. www.michellelovric.com