The Banquet of Ester Rosenbaum

Penny Simpson is Head of Press at Welsh National Opera, coming full circle after a series of cleaning and receptionist's jobs at Glyndebourne Opera House, which helped support her at art college (and subsidised a taste in designer shoes). She trained as a journalist, specialising in the arts, before winning Barclays/TMA Theatre Critic of the Year in 1991. Her assignments took her to a post-war Croatian island beach to review The Tempest, and to Nikko, Japan, where she hung out with yabusame horseback archers. A playwright and author of short fiction which has appeared in anthologies from Bloomsbury, Honno and Virago, her debut collection of short fiction DOGdays was published in 2003. This is her first novel.Simpson, Penny is the author of 'The Banquet of Ester Rosenbaum' with ISBN 9780955527234 and ISBN 0955527236.