Delphine de Vigan is the prize-winning author of bestselling No and Me, which was a Richard & Judy selection in Britain, Nothing Holds Back the Night, Underground Time and Based on a True Story. She lives in Paris. George Miller is the translator into English of all four of Delphine de Vigan’s titles. He is also a regular translator for Le Monde diplomatique’s English-language edition.
Poignant * Observer * Taut and poignant ... There's sadness in this simple tale * Sunday Telegraph * Praise for Delphine de Vigan: 'Delphine de Vigan's dark family thrillers are a cult sensation * i * The latest literary sensation ... It has people in a word-of-mouth frenzy I've not seen since Gone Girl * Daily Telegraph * One of the finest writers of psychological fiction in France today * France Magazine * You're kept reading helplessly to the desperate cliffhanger finish * Daily Mail * Taut and fascinating ... A moving tribute to the power the bonds of love * Guardian * A taut, intense novel of secrets, lies and the unknowable depths of others * Tatler * Dark, smart, strange, compelling - and tremendously French -- Harriet Lane I've never read a book that makes the complex relationship between reality and fiction both as visible, and at the same time so opaque, as here. I was captivated. * Independent * de Vigan plays with the tropes of the psychological thriller, but her work is steeped in philosophical ruminations -- Joanna Briscoe * Guardian * Frighteningly honest, precise and thrilling * Observer *