Alison Fell was born in Dumfries, Scotland and raised in villages in the Highlands and Borders. Her previous novels are Every Move You Make and The Bad Box. Among several volumes of poetry she has published are Kisses for Mayakovsky which won the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award for poetry in 1984. She has edited three Serpent's Tail compilations: The Seven Deadly Sins, The Seven Cardinal Virtues and Serious Hysterics. She now lives and writes full-time in North London.
