Lucy Beckett is a novelist, historian and literary critic. Her novels include The Time Before You Die, set in the English Reformation, A Postcard from the Volcano, set in Weimar Germany, The Leaves are Falling, set in the borderlands of Poland and Russia during World War II, The Year of Thamar's Book, a powerful evocation of La France profonde in counterpoint to the horrors of the Algerian War for independence, and In the Grieving of her Days.
