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Acclaimed novelist Damon Galgut evokes the life and work of E M Forster, including his travels to India and the freedom and inspiration he found there, in a fictional exploration of the great writer’s life. Galgut explores Forster’s trips to India, his struggle to find a way of living and being and the creative processes that went into providing some of the finest novels of his generation.

Galgut was born in Pretoria and wrote his first novel at 17. The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Dublin / IPMAC Award. In A Strange Room was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.