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Louise Dean is the author of three previous novels: Becoming Strangers, which was awarded the Betty Trask Prize in 2004 and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, This Human Season and The Idea of Love. She lives in Kent and has three children.
Compassionate and amusing * The Times Literary Supplement * Sharply observed * Psychologies * Dean writes with beautifully controlled clarity about family ties, social class, the generation gap and the vanished England of the past. She's extremely funny, but also humane and moving * The Times * A warm-hearted comedy of bad manners * Daily Mail * Dean's observations have a lyrical intensity few can match * Guardian * Very appealing...so vivid are the quintessentially British characters and the snappy, well-observed dialogue. Delightful, eccentric * Observer * Dean is able to demonstrate her unobtrusive skill as the creator of comic set-pieces...painfully funny * The Sunday Times * Dark, scurrilous and richly comic. There is so much to treasure in this terrific book, but its deepest joy is the sharp, perceptive writing * Financial Times * Channels the rough music of everyday life with a tragicomic subtlety, a pin-sharp ear for dialogue and a flair for every nuance of character and class. Louise Dean's fearless, frank and darkly comic novels have brought a fresh colour and character to English fiction -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
