Book description
'People like to think that money and love are opposites. Anna
Moore, tax inspector A2 Grade, has come to be less sure . . .' Anna is
assigned to investigate John Law, code maker, code breaker and the
world's first quadrillionaire. What follows is a lesson in generosity
and greed, and a powerful discovery of love. 'One of the two or three
most original and interesting young novelists working in Britain
today.' A. S. Byatt, Guardian 'Engage, and you're hooked . . . Hill is
that rarity, a novelist who gets better with every book. He makes
reading a joy.' Tom Adair, Scotsman 'An intelligent, brooding novel
that lingers in the mind.' Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail
Tobias Hill was born in London. In 2003 the TLS nominated him as one
the best young writers in Britain: in 2004 he was selected as one of the
country's Next Generation poets and shortlisted for the Sunday Times
Young Writer of the Year. His collection of stories, Skin, won the
Pen-Macmillan Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the John
Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize. The Cryptographer, his third novel,
led AS Byatt to observe that 'Hill is one of the two or three most
original and interesting young novelists working in Britain today.' His
fourth novel, The Hidden, was published in 2009 to great critical
acclaim.
