Joe Heap was born in Bradford in 1986, the son of two teachers. In 2004, he won the Foyles Young Poet award. He studied for a BA in English Literature at Stirling University and a Masters in Creative Writing at Glasgow University. Joe lives in London with his long-suffering girlfriend, short-suffering child, and much-aggrieved cat. Life Number Nine is his third novel.

A beautifully written love story, that travels beyond epic … This is the kind of book where you read a line and think, that's one of the best lines I've ever read. But then so's the next one, and the next. The energy of the writing is off the scale.

Joe Heap was born in Bradford in 1986, the son of two teachers. In 2004, he won the Foyles Young Poet award. He studied for a BA in English Literature at Stirling University and a Masters in Creative Writing at Glasgow University. Joe lives in London with his long-suffering girlfriend, short-suffering child, and much-aggrieved cat. Life Number Nine is his third novel.

A beautifully written love story, that travels beyond epic … This is the kind of book where you read a line and think, that's one of the best lines I've ever read. But then so's the next one, and the next. The energy of the writing is off the scale.

Joe Heap was born in Bradford in 1986, the son of two teachers. In 2004, he won the Foyles Young Poet award. He studied for a BA in English Literature at Stirling University and a Masters in Creative Writing at Glasgow University. Joe lives in London with his long-suffering girlfriend, short-suffering child, and much-aggrieved cat. Life Number Nine is his third novel.

A beautifully written love story, that travels beyond epic … This is the kind of book where you read a line and think, that's one of the best lines I've ever read. But then so's the next one, and the next. The energy of the writing is off the scale.