About the Author

Olga Merino has lived in London and Moscow, where she worked as a correspondent for the Spanish newspaper El Periodico de Cataluna. In 2006 she won the literary prize NH Mario Vargas Llosa to the best single short-story for the tale Las normas son las normas (Rules are Rules), which recreates an impossible love story between a British soldier, disabled during the Crimean War, and a Welsh nurse, based upon the historic personality of Betsy Cadwaladyr.