Books by Alina Reyes

Alina Reyes was born in 1956 in Soulac in the South-West of France. She left school early and married, but then returned to her studies, completing a master's thesis on the fantasy stories of the nineteenth-century writer, Macel Schwob. While studying she supported herself and her two sons by working as a freelance journalist. Her controversial first novel, The Butcher, was originally wrirtten for a competition of erotic writing; it was published, became an overnight bestseller in France, and has since been translated into fifteen languages. Her second novel, Lucie's Long Voyage, was published in English in 1991 and her third novel, The Fatal Bodice, in 1993. Alina Reyes currently lives in Paris.