The Birth of Love

About the Author

Joanna Kavenna grew up in various parts of Britain, and has also lived in the USA, France, Germany, Scandinavia and the Baltic States. Her first book, The Ice Museum, was about travelling in the North. Her second book, a novel called Inglorious, won the Orange Award for New Writers. Kavenna’s writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the Guardian and Observer, the Times Literary Supplement, the International Herald Tribune, the Spectator and the Daily Telegraph, among other publications. She has held writing fellowships at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and St John’s College, Cambridge. She currently lives in the Duddon Valley, Cumbria.