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Helen Stevenson grew up in South Yorkshire and studied modern languages at Somerville College, Oxford. She is the author of three novels, Pierrot Lunaire, Windfall and Mad Elaine, and has worked as a translator for Faber & Faber and Serpent's Tail. Since taking up full-time writing, she regularly reviews for the Independent. She now lives in London.
A beautifully tactile and relective meditation on the outsider's experience of a community, it is sharp and lyrical, occasionally a little whimsical, but always pushing towards the truth. * The Times * The most authentic, enjoyable and evocative book on French village life that I have read in years. It deserves to be a hit! -- Joanne Harris A warm and wistful account of adapting to a new country and the heartache it brings. * Elle * Wonderfully evocative, with a plangent note of longing, this is one for those dreary February commutes to work. * Marie Claire * As beguiling and as enigmatically seductive a piece of writing as you could ask for . . . A beautifully tactile and reflective meditation on the outsider's experience of a community. * The Times *
