About the Author

Claire Messud is a recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The author of five other works of fiction including, most recently, The Burning Girl, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her family.

Reviews

Messud is magnificent on female fury . . . The Burning Girl is an astute, subtle novel that conceals an eloquent and clear-eyed rage simmering beneath its surface - Financial Times (on The Burning Girl)Messud captures young adolescence vividly and unjudgementally . . . this is a hard book to stop reading - Guardian (on The Burning Girl)This is a terrific novel, beautifully written and crafted; I don't believe Messud could write a duff sentence if she tried - The Times (on The Burning Girl)A novel of deep emotional intelligence . . . There are insightful, psychologically astute meditations throughout the narrative, written in the precise, elegant prose we've come to expect from this master storyteller . . . The Burning Girl is reminiscent of My Brilliant Friend - Independent (on The Burning Girl)