Nancy Huston is a prize-winning author in both her native Canada and in France, where she has resided since 1973. She is the author of seven novels and numerous works of non-fiction. Born in Calgary, Alberta in 1953, she moved to New Hampshire when she was fifteen and was attending Sarah Lawrence College when she travelled to Paris for a year of study. She never left. Huston lives in Paris with her husband, Tzvetan Todorov, a philosopher and writer originally from Bulgaria, and their two children.
Edwina Wren is an Australian actress and voice-over artist who has appeared on the television series Neighbours and in the films Canopy and Macbeth. She is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts. Wren is the award-winning narrator of works such as Geraldine Brooks’s New York Times bestselling audiobook People of the Book and The Glass House by Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion. She has narrated nearly 100 audiobooks.