CHRISTINE BROOKE-ROSE was born in Geneva and educated at Somerville College, Oxford and University College, London. She worked in Intelligence at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, and as a freelance reviewer and writer during the 1950s and 60s. She is the author of a number of works of academic criticism and translations, as well as novels, one of which, Such, received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1966. Christine Brooke-Rose taught at the University of Paris, Vincennes, from 1968 to 1988 and now lives in the south of France.