Phil Whitaker’s critically acclaimed novels have won him the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Encore Award, a Betty Trask Award, and a shortlisting for the Whitbread First Novel Award. He lives in Somerset with his wife, their children, and the family dog. As well as writing fiction, Phil is a practising doctor and author of the fortnightly ‘Health Matters’ column in the New Statesman. You is his sixth novel.
