Sam Mills

n the summer of 2004 Sam Mills sent the opening chapter of a novel called to Faber & Faber. It was pulled from their slush pile and, within a day, Sam had a reply asking to see the rest. ‘This sent me into a panic,’ Sam says, ‘as I hadn’t actually written it. I spent a year crafting the book and worrying that they would have forgotten me, but fortunately my editor remembered and loved