Andrew Miller made his debut on the British literary scene in 1997 with Ingenious Pain, a powerful and original first novel that won the prestigious James Tait Black Memorial Fiction Award that same year. Reviewers in Europe and the United States have raved about this new novelist who so decisively established himself from the first on the British literary scene.

Andrew Brooke Miller was born in Bristol on 29 April 1960, and he grew up in Bath and Wiltshire. He has one older brother who lives in Paris and a younger half sister in London. He also has eleven stepbrothers and stepsisters. His parents separated when he was four, and he and his older brother went to live in Bath with his mother, who used to work as a relationship counselor. His father, a doctor, is now retired and lives in Cyprus. Interestingly, it is not Miller but his brother who...