Celia Brayfield is an English writer whose novels have been acclaimed for the wit, narrative mastery and acute social observation with which they address modern themes. She is the author of four non-fiction books and nine novels. The latest novel, Wild Weekend , a comedy set in the English countryside and loosely based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, was published by Time Warner Books in 2004, as was her memoir of a year spent in the remote Bearn region of France, Deep France.