Camille Laurens is an award-winning French novelist and essayist. She received the Prix Femina, one of France's most prestigious literary prizes, in 2000 for Dans ces bras-l , which was published in the United States as In His Arms in 2004. She lives in Paris. Adriana Hunter studied French and Drama at the University of London. She has translated more than fifty books including Nelly Alard's Couple Mechanics and Electrico W by Herve Le Tellier (winner of the French-American Foundation's 2013 Translation Prize in Fiction). She won the 2011 Scott Moncrieff Prize, and her work has been shortlisted twice for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. She lives in Norfolk, England.