Rachel Ingalls was born in Boston in 1940. She dropped out of school and spent time in Germany before studying at Radcliffe College, then moved to Britain in 1965 where she lived until her death. Her debut novel, Theft (1970), won the Authors' Club First Novel Award. Mrs Caliban(1982) was named - to her surprise - one of the 20 best American novels since WWII by the British Book Marketing Council ...