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Nell Leyshon's first novel, Black Dirt, was long-listed for the Orange Prize, and shortlisted for the Commonwealth prize. Her plays include Comfort me with Apples, which won an Evening Standard Award, and Bedlam, which was the first play written by a woman for Shakespeare's Globe. She writes for BBC Radio 3 and 4, and won the Richard Imison Award for her first radio play. Nell was born in Glastonbury and lives in Dorset.
Embodies an authenticity more common in non-fiction...short but powerful. Sunday Telegraph Gary's first-person narration grabs us by the collar and drags us through his tale of a life, from childhood to middle-age, on the underbelly of society. Leyshon brilliantly renders his voice, which is forcible, baldly honest, intimate and often blackly funny ... This is a book full of important questions, and I applaud Leyshon for asking them. Guardian Spare and beautifully crafted, compelling. Like a love letter to the power of words. Marie Claire Gary is an unusually candid and beguiling narrator The Independent Leyshon is a master of domestic suspense ... Slender but compelling, the charm of Leyshon's novella is to be found as much in its spare, evocative style as in the moving candour of its narrator Observer on The Colour of Milk Leyshon's spare, dialogue-centred storytelling is lean and vivid... a small potted tragedy, as highly concentrated as a stock cube The Times on The Colour of Milk
