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Robert Edric was born in 1956. His novels include Winter Garden (1985 James Tait Black Prize winner), A New Ice Age (1986 runner-up for the 1986 Guardian Fiction Prize), The Book of the Heathen (shortlisted for the 2001 WH Smith Literary Award), Peacetime (longlisted for the Booker Prize 2002), Gathering the Water (longlisted for the Booker Prize 2006) and In Zodiac Light, which was shortlisted for the Dublin Impac Prize 2010. He lives in Yorkshire
A clever, intriguing and very well-written novel about the moral landscape of late-Victorian London * The Times * Edric mixes a potent brew... The ending is a masterstroke of the ironic and macabre * Daily Mail * Sharply written, wholly engrossing... not just an Edric novel, but the Edric novel * Guardian * Place, time and atmosphere are conjured with impeccable lightness of touch * Spectator * Gripping and entertaining read... well told and absorbing * Eastern Daily Press *
