Samantha Dooey-Miles's fiction focuses on first-person, female voices. Her work explores the significance seemingly small moments can hold, rage, shame and embarrassment. Her stories have been published in New Writing Scotland, Gutter and Postbox amongst others. In 2021 she won a Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award. She has had monologues performed by Slackline Productions and Coronavirus Theatre Club. Her short plays have been staged by Short Attention Theatre and at Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch.
This dark satire perfectly captures the resentment and fury that too many landlords instil in their tenants -- Stylist Magazine Dooey-Miles' satirical black comedy is a lively and darkly funny novel that critiques a real social problem, but you'd want to keep an eye on anyone who claimed to identify with its protagonist -- Herald The ultimate Generation Rent revenge novel -- Daily Record A character you can root for even as her deeds become increasingly eyebrow-raising -- Scotland on Sunday Pitch-black perfection - Samantha Dooey-Miles is an evil genius -- Kirstin Innes, author of Scabby Queen