Barbara Trapido was born in South Africa and is the author of
six novels – Brother of the More Famous Jack (winner of a Whitbread
special prize for fiction), Noah’s Ark, Temples of Delight (shortlisted
for the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award), Juggling,
The Travelling Hornplayer (shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread
Novel Award) and Frankie and Stankie. She lives in Oxford.