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Michèle Roberts is the author of twelve highly acclaimed novels, including The Looking Glass and Daughters of the House which won the WHSmith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize (1992). She has also published short stories, most recently collected in Playing Sardines, and poetry. Half-English and Half-French, Michèle Roberts lives in London and in the Mayenne, France. She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

Michèle Roberts is one of those writers descended perhaps as much from Monet and Debussy as Virginia Woolf or Keats... To read a book by her is to savour colour, sound, taste, texture and touch as never before.

The Times