Jane RogersJane Rogers has written numerous books, including Her Living Image, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award; Mr. Wroe's Virgins, a Guardian Fiction Prize runner-up; Promised Lands, winner of the Writers' GuildAward for Best Fiction Book; Island, long-listed for the Orange Prize; and The Voyage Home. She has written drama for radio and television, including an award-winning adaptation of Mr. Wroe's Virgins for BBC2. She has taught writing at the University of Adelaide, at the Sorbonne, and on a radio-writing project in eastern Uganda. She is professor of writing at Sheffield Hallam University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives on the edge of the moors in Lancashire, England. Read More Read Less