"'Hilarious' Guardian "The novel's comedy is founded on the rage and bitterness of a satirist who spares us nothing in his determination to expose the corruption and stupidity he sees as endemic to English culture.' Michele Roberts, Independent on Sunday 'Courageous, witty and meticulous' Eric Korn, TLS 'Where there's life there's Christopher Hope" Victoria Glendinning, Daily Telegraph 'Deep and humane' Justin Cartwright, The Times"

Christopher Hope was born in Johannesburg in 1944. He is the author of nine novels and one collection of short stories, including Kruger's Alp, which won the Whitbread Prize for Fiction, Serenity House, which was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize, and My Mother's Lovers, published by Atlantic Books in 2006 to great acclaim. He is also a poet and playwright and author of the celebrated memoir White Boy Running (1988).