William Boyd was born in Ghana, the son of a Scottish doctor, in 1952, and grew up there and in Nigeria. His first novel A Good Man in Africa was published in 1981, and won both the Whitbread First Novel and Somerset Maugham Prizes. He has since published many acclaimed and successful novels, and four collections of short stories.
The stories here are perfect . . . suffused with an understanding of love, desire and emotional incompetence * Guardian * Perfectly formed snapshots of life at its most mystifying * Daily Mail * Consistently entertaining * Literary Review * Boyd achieves his best writing, observing tiny moments of love, lust and epiphany with extraordinary sensitivity * Spectator *