Marina Lewycka was born of Ukrainian parents in a refugee camp in Kiel, Germany, at the end of the war, and grew up in England. She teaches at Sheffield Hallam University.  She is married, with a grown-up daughter, and lives in Sheffield. Her novels include the bestselling A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Two Caravans and We are All Made of Glue.

» Read an extract from Two Caravans