Simonetta Agnello Hornby lives in London, where she was previously a family lawyer specialised in juvenile cases and President of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal. Her profession and her writing have always been linked to her engagement working for victims of domestic violence and people on the margins of society. The Almond Picker, her first novel, was translated worldwide. Her latest book, Nobody can fly (Feltrinelli, 2017), written with her son George who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 15 years ago, gives us a different perspective from which to observe life.