Dan GlaisterDan Glaister was born and grew up in the south of England. After graduating he worked at Marxism Today before spending time in Nicaragua and Barcelona. He joined The Guardian in the early 1990s and worked there as a writer/sub-editor, then as arts corespondent and arts editor before moving to Los Angeles as west coast correspondent. He returned to the UK in 2011 and continued to write for the Observer. He spends much of his time chasing sheep on the farm in Gloucestershire where he lives with his wife and their family, near the location of this, his first novel. Read More Read Less