'Exceptionally modern in flavour and shocking in intensity' COSMOPOLITAN 'A little masterpiece, a disturbing analysis of English class and character' NEW STATESMAN Hermione Lee in the TLS: 'When the histories of modernism are rewritten, no one will be able to ignore May Sinclair again'

Born in Liverpool in 1863, May Sinclair had no formal education until the age of 18. She worked with Cicely Hamilton and Violet Hunt for the Suffragist cause and wrote a total of 24 novels in addition to philosophical works, poetry and criticism. She died in 1932.