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Zoe Gilbert is a fiction writer based in London, UK. Folk (Bloomsbury, February 2018) is her first novel. Her short stories have been published in anthologies and journals around the world, and have won prizes including the Costa Short Story Award 2014. She teaches creative writing at London Lit Lab and for other organisations including the British Library, Arvon Foundation and Mslexia, and is an associate editor at The Word Factory. She is completing a PhD on folk tales in contemporary fiction, and working on her next novel, all about woods. Penelope Rawlins is an award-winning narrator of over 150 audiobooks encompassing many accents and ages as well as voicing for animation, computer games, English Language tapes, ADR, corporate and commercial. In 2013, she was nominated for Narrator of the Year by Audible. Penelope works as a mentor for the voiceover training company Gravy for the Brain alongside Hugh Edwards and Peter Dickson. She also works as a voice coach training accent reduction for actors in English and American English.
'An extraordinary debut novel . It feels both ancient - drawing on deep seams of myth and folklore - and strikingly contemporary.' -- The Financial Times 'Folk is a special book: immersive and dripping with life ... It reads like a dream that, once visited, is difficult to leave behind.' -- The Guardian 'Dazzling and unsettling, much like the best and darkest of fairy tales.' -- The Times Literary Supplement 'That rare thing: genuinely unique. It's part-myth, part-allegory, wholly wonderful.' -- The Observer
