Recovering from a heart attack at a seedy Mexican resort with his girlfriend, Willy Muller, convicted of murdering his wife and the author of a tasteless, tell-all memoir, is forced to come to terms with his life and influence on others as he reads the diaries of his late daughter, Sadie, a suicide. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.
Zoe Heller was born in London in 1965 and educated at Oxford University and Columbia University, New York. She is a journalist who, after writing book reviews for various newspapers, became a feature writer for The Independent. She wrote a weekly confessional column for the Sunday Times for four years, but now writes for the Daily Telegraph and earned the title 'Columnist of the Year' in 2002.
She is the author of three novels: Everything You Know (2000), a dark comedy about misanthropic writer Willy Miller, Notes on a Scandal (2003) which tells the story of an affair between a high school teacher and her student through the eyes of the teacher's supposed friend, Barbara Covett and her latest - The Believers (2008).