DM Thomas was born in Cornwall in 1935. After reading English at New College, Oxford, he became a teacher until he became a full-time writer. His novels include The Flute-Player, Ararat, Swallow, Sphinx, Summit, Flying into Love and Eating Pavlova. He has also published memoirs, several volumes of poetry and translations of Pushkin and Anna Akhmatova. He now lives in Cornwall.
This is a story of eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a vision of the wounds of the 20th-century, and an attempt to heal them. (Kirkus UK)