HELEN DUNMORE has published eleven novels with Penguin: Zennor in Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter, which won the Orange Prize; Talking to the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2002; Mourning Ruby; House of Orphans; Counting the Stars; and The Betrayal. She is also a poet, children’s novelist and short-story writer.