Over 70,000 sold of Property, winner of the 2003 Orange Prize for Fiction Published to coincide with new hardback, Italian Fever Super new series look to welcome Valerie Martin to the list 'An utterly compelling work of fiction' New York Times 'Evocatively humanises the wild nature that is just beneath the surface of us all' Time At turns eerie, disturbing, painful and passionate...Martin's most provocative and resonant work' San Francisco Chronicle

'Martin writes of the emotional desolation of a marriage break-up with clarity and candour. This is a powerful, challenging and draining novel.' -- Simon Shaw MAIL ON SUNDAY (3.10.04)

Valerie Martin is the author of two collections of short fiction and six novels, including Italian Fever, The Great Divorce and Mary Reilly, the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde story, from the viewpoint of a housemaid, which was filmed with Julia Roberts and John Malkovich. She lives in upstate New York.