Costanza Casati was born in Texas and grew up in a village in Northern Italy, where she studied Ancient Greek and Ancient Greek literature under one of the country’s most rigorous academic programmes. She is a graduate of the prestigious Warwick Writing MA in the UK, and has worked as a screenwriter and journalist. Her debut novel, Clytemnestra, has sold into 18 territories worldwide and was shortlisted for the HWA Debut Crown Award and the Glass Bell Award. Babylonia, her second novel, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller.

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