The Favourite

This is a novel about a woman coming to terms with her incestuous fantasies and her obsession with her father. Rosalind has grown up with her sense of the erotic dangerously at odds with her sense of the maternal. Now she begins to live out her lifelong expectations of betrayal.

Meredith Daneman was born in Tasmania and educated in Sydney, Australia. At sixteen she won a scholarship to the Royal Ballet School in London. She appeared at Covent Garden with the Royal Opera Ballet and was a founding member of the Australian Ballet. Her first novel, A Chance to Sit Down, was published in 1971; this was followed by The Groundling (1982) and Francie and the Boys (1988). She is currently working on a biography of Margot Fonteyn. She and her husband, the actor Paul Daneman, live in London and have two daughters.