A magnificent writer -- Helen Dunmore Guardian

Michele Roberts is one of those writers descended perhaps as much from Monet and Debussy as Virginia Woolf or Keats ... To read a book by her is to savour colour, sound, taste, texture and touch as never before The Times Her fictions are high-risk, unconventional ... The otherwise cautious reader is taken almost without realising it into dangerous and exhilarating territory -- Rachel Cusk

A disciplined and elegant writer Observer

Writing of such a high calibre can make you feel that the life of the mind is everything, that the acute observation and intelligence of the writer is a sort of mirror to what matters most in life ... Strong and lustrous prose -- Susie Boyt Financial Times

Roberts's greatest skill is the insight with which she writes about women caught up in heightened states of awareness ... Her writing breaks new ground The Times One of Britain's best novelists Independent on Sunday

Roberts is at her best when she writes about food and sex, about feelings and desires that cut across boundaries of time and class Sunday Times

Michele Roberts is the author of thirteen highly acclaimed novels, including The Looking Glass and Daughters of the House, which won the WHSmith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her most recent novel Ignorance was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2013 and her memoir Paper Houses was BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week. She has also published poetry and short stories, most recently collected in Mud- stories of sex and love (2010). Half-English and half-French, Michele Roberts lives in South-East London. She is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. micheleroberts.co.uk