Delphine de Vigan is the author of bestselling D’après une histoire vraie. Her previous novel, Nothing Holds Back the Night won the Prix FNAC and the Grand Prix des Lectrices de ELLE. No and Me (2010) was a bestseller in France (400,000 copies) and was awarded the Prix des Libraires. In Britain it was a Richard & Judy selection and has sold over 70,000 copies. Underground Time was shortlisted for the Goncourt Prize in 2009. She lives in Paris.

George Miller is the translator of Nothing Holds Back the Night, No and Me and Underground Time. He is also a regular translator for Le Monde diplomatique’s English-language edition, and the translator of Conversations with my Gardener by Henri Cueco and Disordered World by Amin Maalouf.