About the Author

Tim Lott is the author of seven novels and a memoir, The Scent of Dried Roses, which won the PEN/J.R. Ackerley Prize. White City Blue won the Whitbread First Novel Award and his young adult book Fearless was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Book Award. Tim lives with his family in north-west London.

Reviews

'Tim Lott is one of the few novelists who truly understands story structure' - John Yorke, author of Into the Woods


'Tim Lott has long experience of the practice of writing fiction as well as a deep knowledge the theory of story craft - a rare yet essential combination' - Will Storr, author of The Science of Storytelling


'Shaping a novel chapter by chapter requires complex psychological insight. Tim Lott possesses that insight' - Robert McKee, author of Story