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Novelist and poet Michele Roberts was educated at a convent school before studying at Somerville College, Oxford, and University College, London. She was Visiting Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 1992, where she is currently Professor of Creative Writing, and Research Fellow in Writing (1995-6) at Nottingham Trent University (now Visiting Professor). She is Chair of the British Council literature advisory panel and is a regular book reviewer and broadcaster. Michele Roberts was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999. She lives in London and in Mayenne, France. She was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France) in 2000.
Bold and moving * Guardian * An assured tour de force of passion...the power with which it reclaims spiritual and sexual strength for women cannot be ignored * Time Out * By her rich use of symbols and metaphor she transforms feminist cliché into something alive and moving * Times Literary Supplement * A complex and highly original novel * Sunday Times *
