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Marina Walker is a novelist, historian and critic. Her fiction includes Indigo, The Lost Father (awarded a Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Macmillan Silver Pen Award and shortlisted for the Booker Prize), the collection of stories, Mermaids in the Basement and most recently The Leto Bundle. Her historical quests into areas of myth and symbolism - Alone of All Her Sex, Joan of Arc, Monuments and Maidens, and No go the Bogeyman - led her into the exploration of fairy tales. She is the editor of Wonder Tales, a collection of fairy tales by the great women storytellers of the 17th and 18th centuries and the author of a study of the fairy tale, From the Beast to the Blonde. In 1994 she gave the Reith Lectures on BBC Radio, Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time.
Here, in one of her finest novels, Warner paints a portrait of a fictional Italian family between 1909 and the 1930s. As the narrator is drawn into the passion and prejudice of her own invention, it becomes increasingly clear how family memory distorts and mythologizes. (Kirkus UK)
