Holly Dawson is a writer, editor and teacher. Since 2018, she has been Reader-in-Residence at Charleston, where she gets to indulge her passion for Modernist literature and Virginia Woolf. Her plays, drawing on Bloomsbury diaries and letters, have been performed by actors including Helena Bonham Carter, Miranda Richardson and Jonathan Pryce. Having grown up in Cornwall, she now lives in rural Sussex with far too many hens. @hollyjdawson | hollyjdawson.com
I loved it. The smarts, lyricisms, surprises and deep humanity of it all -- SUSIE ORBACH Brilliant, brave, wild and marvellous. Holly Dawson's book embodies a woman's capacity for laughter, tenderness, resilience and maternal love in a way that only the very best writing can do. Even when everything feels like it might be lost, she never extinguishes that glimmer of hope that that will save us all -- JULIET NICOLSON When you read All of Us Atoms, your perception of time will expand, your eyes will brighten and your heart will race with a sense of recognition. This is the portrait of a brilliant brain unravelling and reassembling like an ingenious accordion from another era. Space, sound and perception scatter around the pages like luminous molecules and you'll have fortunate glimpses of a primordial sense of being in the world. I loved being in the atoms of Holly Dawson's world. I never wanted to leave -- CHIARA BARZINI All of Us Atoms is an extraordinary memoir. A love letter to a life and all the lives within it. Tender, epic, brutal and entirely unexpected. I loved it. -- DENISE GOUGH