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Nicholas Shakespeare was born in 1957. The son of a diplomat, much of his youth was spent in the Far East and South America. His novels have been translated into twenty languages. They include The Vision of Elena Silves, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, Snowleg and The Dancer Upstairs, which was chosen by the American Libraries Association in 1997 as the year's best novel, and in 2001 was made into a film of the same name by John Malkovich. His most recent novels are Secrets of the Sea and Inheritance. He is married with two small boys and currently lives in Oxford.He tells a story like an angel... Wonderful
Observer
A deeply satisfying book. I feel quite exceptionally inclined to read it all over again
- Rosemary Stoyle, Literary Review
Shakespeare has completed a richly detailed, remarkably complete imaginary world
The Times
His lyricism is all his own and he raises his lovers to a plateau of passion where Greene never ventured
Sunday Telegraph
Wavery's story has a lyric simplicity and an emotional subtlety that are moving, involving and beautifully observed
Independent