Lionel Shriver was born in 1957, in North Carolina. A journalist and writer, she studied at Columbia University, has lived in Nairobi, Belfast and Bangkok, and currently resides in London. After several novels, in 2005 she won the prestigious Orange Prize with We Have to Talk About Kevin, which became an international bestseller and praised the author: «A very brave, very risky, very hard-working and very shocking book, without concessions or gratuities, of powerful literary significance" (José María Guelbenzu, El País). In addition to this, Anagrama has also published her following novels: The world after the birthday: «A writer who always goes for everything» (Pablo Martínez Zarracina); «Full of intelligent humor» (Ramón Loureiro, La Voz de Galicia); All this for what: «Modacious and with a very black humor, after reading Shriver and all the others they seem silly and dull to us» (Gabriela Wiener, Marie Claire); «I read her previous novel, The Day After the Birthday, and I don't want to stop reading everything she does» (Lola Beccaria, El País); «Lionel Shriver does not write, he builds bombs» (Laura Fernández, El Mundo); Big Brother: «Lionel Shriver's lucidity always gives us a well-deserved and sometimes hilarious slap in the face. He keeps us awake »(Marta Sanz, El Confidencial); and The Mandible: «Shriver perfects his status as a social chronicler... The self-conscious brilliance of his dialogues and the satirical breath of his prose conspire, as in the best novels of Jonathan Franzen or Jeffrey Eugenides, in favor of his characters , which are always close" (Sergi Sánchez, El Periódico).