Fane, Olivia: The Glorious Flight of Perdita Tree

A bored, eccentric political wife is kidnapped in 1990s Albania and finds herself aiding the establishment of a budding democracy.

OLIVIA FANE was born in 1960. She studied Classics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, trained as a probation officer and worked as a psychiatric social worker. She lives with her husband and five sons in West Sussex. Her first novel, Landing on Clouds, combined intellectual ideas with clear, involving prose; it won a Betty Trask award, and drew comparisons with Iris Murdoch.