Kiss and Part

Salley Vickers’ subtle, witty style and clear-eyed observation of human nature has been compared to Penelope Fitzgerald and Barbara Pym. She has worked as a university teacher of literature, specialising in Shakespeare, and in adult education, where she specialised in the literature of the ancient world. She is a trained analytical psychologist and lectures widely on the connections between literature, psychology and religion. She divides her time between London, Venice and the West Country.

Maggie Gee was a friend of Kitty Mrosovsky and a fellow alumnus of Somerville College, Oxford. She has published seventeen books, including a memoir, My Animal Life, reviewed for most British media outlets and judged many literary prizes, including the Booker. Her novels include Blood (2019), Virginia Woolf in Manhattan (2014), and the pioneering climate change fictions Where Are the Snows (1990), The Ice People (1997), and The Flood (2004). Her novel The White Family (2002) was shortlisted for the Women's Prize and the International Dublin Impac Award. Her books have been translated into over 15 languages. She is a Professor Emeritus of Bath Spa University.

Maria McCann was born in Liverpool in 1956, and educated there and at the University of Durham. Since 1985 she has been a lecturer in English at Somerset College. As Meat Loves Salt is her first book.

Jill Dawson is the author of eleven novels and one poetry collection, and is the editor of six anthologies of poetry and stories. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has been a Costa Judge and has taught creative writing in many different settings. She lives in Cambridgeshire.