**Peter Benson *is the author of eight novels and winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Encore Award, and the Somerset Maugham Award. He has also published short stories, screenplays, and poetry, and his work has been adapted for television and radio, and translated into several languages. His p...

**Peter Benson *is the author of eight novels and winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Encore Award, and the Somerset Maugham Award. He has also published short stories, screenplays, and poetry, and his work has been adapted for television and radio, and translated into several languages. His previous novel, The South in Winter * (2017), was published by Alma Books.