Glen Duncan is a British author born in 1965 in Bolton, Lancashire, England[1] to an Anglo-Indian family.
In 1994 he visited India with his father[2] (part roots odyssey, part research for a later work, The Bloodstone Papers) before continuing on to the United States, where he spent several months travelling the country by Amtrak train, writing much of what would become his first novel, Hope, published to critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic in 1997.
The premise of the book is that Lucifer has been given a month to live in mortal form to get himself back into God's good graces before the end of the world.
According to critic William Skidelsky in The Observer, Duncan "specialises in writing novels that can't easily be pigeon-holed".
[3] Similarly, David Robson in The Daily Telegraph has noted that Duncan is "an idiosyncratic talent", adding,"You never know quite which way he is going to turn.