Leigh Radford trained as a broadcast journalist. She produced and presented arts and entertainment content and documentaries for UK commercial radio, BBC Radio, Time Out, The Times and The Sun. A former book publicist, she is a 2023 graduate of Faber Academy. She is currently developing content for film and television through her production company, Kenosha Kickers. One Yellow Eye is her debut novel.
Compulsively readable. A propulsive, page-turning descent into all that is lovely and grotesque about grief, obsession and love -- Olivie Blake, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Atlas Six</i> and <i>Masters of Death</i> An acidic, funny, queasy debut . . . What seems initially to be tense pandemic fiction reveals a tender, harrowing love story -- Emma van Straaten, author of <i>This Immaculate Body</i> An equally charming and grim zombie novel about undying love. Every page simmers with exquisite dread. Original and smart and heartfelt, an unmissable debut that blends and transcends genre -- Rachel Harrison, bestselling author of <i>So Thirsty</i> and <i>Black Sheep</i> Witty, propulsive and heartbreaking. Radford’s dark, zombie love-story is intelligent and refreshing -- Rebecca Netley, author of <i>The Whistling</i> You wouldn't expect a zombie novel to have so much to say about love. Radford's suspenseful One Yellow Eye is driven by various fears – the fear of a virus that could return to rip the world apart, the fear of a terrible wrongdoing being discovered – but in the end the zombies take a backseat to the greatest horror of all: losing the one closest to our heart -- Mason Coile, author of <i>William</i> Complex and utterly brilliant, One Yellow Eye had me in a chokehold from the first word to the last as I was swept up into Kesta and Tim’s harrowing journey, navigating the fine line between love and selfishness; grief and obsession. Leigh Radford has created a genre all her own (fitting for a tale about zombies) that was darkly comedic, gruesome and compassionate – to say I absolutely loved this beautifully macabre story is an understatement -- Ashley Tate, bestselling author of <i>Twenty Seven Minutes</i> A post-apocalyptic heartbreaker, dosed with high tension and threaded with the profound hope that love brings, One Yellow Eye is a new classic -- Christina Henry, author of <i>Alice</i> and <i>The House That Horror Built</i>