About the Author

Clair Wills is a critic and cultural historian. She is the author of Lovers and Strangers- An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain, which won the Irish Times International Non-Fiction Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, That Neutral Island- A History of Ireland During the Second World War, which won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman History Prize, Dublin 1916, The Best Are Leaving, and most recently The Family Plot- Three Pieces on Containment. Wills is the regius professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge.