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Jo Baker was educated at Oxford and Queen's University, Belfast. She lives in Lancaster with her husband and their two children. She is the author of the bestselling LONGBOURN, which is due to be made into a film. Her latest novel is inspired by the life of Samuel Beckett.
vivid and well-wrought * Times Literary Supplement * Beautifully written, empathetic and unflinching, it is very, very good * Daily Mail * A fascinating fictional account of Samuel Beckett's wartime years * IAN RANKIN * [It is] the unexpected Beckett that is on show here. Baker pays tribute to a man who joined the French Resistance, narrowly escaped the Gestapo, fled south on foot and went into hiding, and was eventually awarded the Croix de Guerre * The Times * Skilful . . . daring . . . an extraordinary story * The Guardian *
