Marina Mander

Marina Mander is the author of two previous books, including a collection of short stories. Her debut novel The First True Lie is her first book to be published in English. She works in publishing in Italy.

Stephen Twilley is managing editor of the online review Public Books and the translator of several books from Italian, including Francesco Pacifico’s The Story of My Purity and Fabio Stassi’s Charlie Chaplin’s Last Dance.