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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 connoisseur of shadows, Edric is excellent on what is truly devilish in human beings The Sunday Times Edric is a novelist who makes his own rules and can't be compared with anyone else. The world he has made in this unsettling novel is both familiar and deeply weird; there's a genuine sense of menace beneath the hysteria and superstition The Times Another brilliant offering from Edric The Lady An intriguing scenario which Edric develops with polish and intelligence, immersing himself in small-town Edwardian England Daily Mail A wonderfully edgy piece of wartime noir -- D.J. Taylor Independent
