Neel Mukherjee was born in Calcutta. His first novel, A Life Apart (2010), won the Vodafone-Crossword Award in India, the Writer's Guild of Great Britain Award for best fiction and was shortlisted for the inaugural DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. This is his second novel. He lives in London. Books by Neel Mukherjee Past Continuous A State of Freedom A Life Apart The Lives of Others