Winner of The Betty Trask Prize. Winner Le Prince Maurice. Longlisted for the Booker Prize.

Louise Dean is a British author, born in Hastings, who read History at Cambridge University. Her novels have been published internationally and featured in The Observer’s top four books of the year as well as the Oprah Book Club. The Wall Street Journal described Louise Dean as one of the world’s top five most under-rated authors. She is the author of short stories and is at work on a short story collection and her fifth novel.