Marion Turner is Associate Professor of English at Jesus College, University of Oxford. Her latest book, shortlisted for the 2020 Wolfson History Prize, and Winner of the 2020 Rose Mary Crawshay Award, is 'Chaucer: A European Life' (Princeton University Press).

This groundbreaking biography recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant’s son became one of the most celebrated of all English poets. Turner is Chaucer's first female biographer.

She chose to meet Jack Aldane at Gee's Restaurant in Oxford.

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