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Elanor Dymott was born in Chingola, Zambia, in 1973. She was educated in the USA and England and spent parts of her childhood in South East Asia, where she later worked. Her first novel, Every Contact Leaves a Trace, was published in 2012. She lives in London.
The gruelling and fascinating process of photographic development reads like its own sort of poetry in this gut-wrenching, achingly intimate look at grief and how closely art and life intertwine, for better or worse. * Kirkus Reviews * She continues to delve into the minds of characters who have experienced some kind of trauma. The book is beautifully grafted, the action swinging from present to past and back again. It is at times lyrical, moving and profoundly disturbing. Dymott shows great psychological insight into the minds of the two girls and their troubles. -- Clarissa Burden * Tablet * Fans of psychological suspense are sure to be hooked. * Saga Magazine * A beautifully observed and shattering exploration of grief as their family's tragic past is revealed. -- Fanny Blake * Woman & Home * Silver & Salt juxtaposes the precise mechanics of the photographic process with the fluidity of memory to great effect. Dymott... skillfully suggests how people - not just pictures - are all too susceptible to atmospheric conditions. -- Stephanie Cross * Daily Mail * Beautifully detailed with a profound sense of place and the intricate clues woven through the fabric of the novel build up to a tragic finale. * Daily Express * I read Silver & Salt as if in a trance. Elanor Dymott is a master of delicate psychological suspense, treading gently but with devastating precision until every detail of this very sad story is revealed and embedded in the reader's mind, possibly forever. -- Elena Lappin, author of WHAT LANGUAGE DO I DREAM IN Beautifully and movingly realized... Dymott has the ability which so many novelists lack to make essentially good people interesting and convincing... Dymott is a novelist of obvious talent -- Allan Massie * Scotsman * Elegant and atmospheric, Silver and Salt is written with a calm lucidity that is both seductive and unnerving. You start to feel that anything could be revealed in that sharp Greek sunlight, and then it is * Adam Foulds * I loved and admired Silver and Salt. It manages to be both very clever and entirely absorbing. I return to the settings in my mind long after finishing the book, and find myself thinking about the characters as if they were people I knew, while also respecting Elanor Dymott's way with a sentence * Sarah Moss *
