About the Author

Deborah Levy's most recent novel, Swimming Home (2011, And Other Stories) was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and she is the author of other highly praised books including Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography and Billy and Girl.

Reviews

'These tales of unconventional love reinforce Levy's reputation as a major contemporary writer who never pulls her punches.' The Independent ---------- 'Metropolitan and knowingly sophisticated.' Sunday Times ---------- 'These ominous, odd, erotic stories burrow deep into your brain.' Financial Times ---------- 'A collection of mischievous vignettes of Mitteleuropa.' The Telegraph ---------- 'Like their protagonists, these stories are powerful because they are fragmentary, elliptical.' The Guardian ---------- 'Levy's pen is a volatile weapon.' The Observer ---------- 'Levy sensitively conveys the phenomenology of textures, of skin and breath. Embedded in her coiled, polished sentences is the drive that pushes us together, and forces us apart.' Times Literary Supplement