Julie Myerson was born in Nottingham in 1960 to a very young mother and a father who worked in ladies’ underwear. Educated at Nottingham High School for Girls and Bristol University, she spent a year in Florence before working in the press office of the National Theatre, where she met her future partner, the playwright and novelist, Jonathan Myerson. She is the author of three previous novels, ‘Sleepwalking’, ‘The Touch’ and ‘Me and the Fat Man’.
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