Linda Grant is a novelist and journalist. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000, for When I Lived in Modern Times, and the Lettre Ulysses Prize for the Art of Reportage in 2006. She is the author of many books, including Sexing the Millennium, The Cast Iron Shore, The Thoughtful Dresser and The Clothes on Their Backs, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008. Her latest novel is We Had It So Good. She lives in North London.