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Nell Stevens writes memoir and fiction. Her debut novel, Briefly, a Delicious Life was longlisted for the 2023 Dylan Thomas Award. She is also the author of Bleaker House and Mrs Gaskell & Me, which won the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award. She was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award in 2018. Her writing is published in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Vogue, The Paris Review, New York Review of Books, Guardian, Granta and elsewhere. Nell is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick.
'What a bewitching book this is. A sinuous, thrilling meditation on fakes and forgers, with echoes of Daphne du Maurier and Sarah Waters and an audacity that is totally original to Nell herself' * Olivia Laing, author of THE GARDEN AGAINST TIME * ‘A delightful, playful puzzle of a novel, and a brilliant twist on the nineteenth century orphan-makes-good story. THE ORIGINAL asks whether, sometimes, faking it is the right thing to do' * Claire Fuller, author of UNSETTLED GROUND * ‘A gorgeous, wildly seductive novel, shimmering with intelligence, humour and joy’ * Sarah Waters (on BRIEFLY, A DELICIOUS LIFE) * ‘Electrifyingly beautiful, exhilaratingly clever’ * Imogen Hermes Gowar (on BRIEFLY, A DELICIOUS LIFE) * ‘Like the best historical fiction it is playfully disingenuous... the whole book is radiant with life’ * Financial Times (on BRIEFLY, A DELICIOUS LIFE) * ‘Nell Stevens’s hugely accomplished debut novel evokes a sense both of place and time with a confidence that augurs well for her future career’ * Guardian (on BRIEFLY, A DELICIOUS LIFE) * ‘Stevens is a very artful writer’ * Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker (on MRS GASKELL & ME) * ‘A truly lovely book – acutely observed and honest and melancholy’ * Jessie Greengrass (on MRS GASKELL & ME) * ‘Perfect… as funny as it is poignant’ * Lena Dunham (on BLEAKER HOUSE) *
