Eleanor Henderson is the author of the bestselling novels The Likeness, The Silent Wife and The Light Between Oceans. She has also written two award-winning memoirs: Becoming, about her relationship with her mother, and The First Bad Man, about her affair with a married man. Her work has been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, the Orange Prize and the Costa Novel Award. The First Bad Man was adapted into a feature film directed by Lany Katz and starring Rebecca Hall and Sam Worthington and released in 2018.
Jude had witnessed all of this with the dejected respect one had for people with destructive talents, like winning hamburger-eating contests.Eleanor Henderson
Later, months later, when Jude thought back to the way it all went down -how did a burnout like him end up straight edge?- he'd remember that ambulance, just like the one he'd been unconscious inside. Its red cross, when viewed from the right angle, was an X on its side.Eleanor Henderson
