About the Author
Bernard MacLaverty lives in Glasgow. He has written four collections of stories and four novels, including
Grace Notes which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. He has written versions of his fiction for other media — radio plays, television plays, screenplays — and wrote and directed the short film
Bye Child which recently won a BAFTA award.
From the Hardcover edition.