Maylis Besserie was born in Bordeaux and now lives in Paris. She works as a producer for the radio channel France Culture. Besserie’s connection with Ireland started when her family sent her to spend summers in Ireland to learn English. Yell, Sam, If You Still Can (Le tiers temps) was her first novel. It won the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman 2020 and was the runner up for the 2023 Scott Moncrieff Prize. It has been sold to more than twenty different territories. Lilliput published her second novel, Scattered Love (Les amours dispersées) in 2023. The final of Besserie’s Irish-French trilogy, Francis Bacon’s Nanny (La nourrice de Francis Bacon) won the Prix du Roman des Écrivains du Sud 2023.