Deborah Levy is the author of several novels including August Blue, Hot Milk and Swimming Home, alongside a formally innovative, critically acclaimed 'living autobiography' trilogy- Things I Don't Want to Know, The Cost of Living and Real Estate. She has been shortlisted twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and Booker Prize and won the Prix Femina Etranger. She has also written for The Royal Shakespeare Company and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
She writes like a hyperkinetic angel * The Times * Distilled images of vital and unsettling power. Levy is one of the few contemporary British writers comfortable on a world stage * New Statesman * It throbs its way into the imagination like the unguided missile it decries * Observer on BEAUTIFUL MUTANTS * She storms through the back door, refusing to be weighed down with rationalist and aesthetic baggage . . . [This] is a world on the brink of destruction but it's going down with a barnyard laugh and an explosive extravagance of imagination * Blitz *