Isla Dewar’s first book, Keeping Up with Magda, was published in 1995. Dewar found success with her second novel, Women Talking Dirty, the film of which starred Helena Bonham Carter. She contributed to the collection Scottish Girls about Town and has also written for children. Her most recent novel, It Takes One to Know One, was published by Polygon in 2018. Born in Edinburgh, Isla lived in the East Neuk of Fife with her husband, political cartoonist Bob Dewar. She died in July 2021.

'It rings so true, Dewar evoking the preoccupations of age with a quiet authority… grounded in an awareness that experience and wisdom are qualities that are always hard-won'

Isla Dewar’s first book, Keeping Up with Magda, was published in 1995. Dewar found success with her second novel, Women Talking Dirty, the film of which starred Helena Bonham Carter. She contributed to the collection Scottish Girls about Town and has also written for children. Her most recent novel, It Takes One to Know One, was published by Polygon in 2018. Born in Edinburgh, Isla lived in the East Neuk of Fife with her husband, political cartoonist Bob Dewar. She died in July 2021.

'It rings so true, Dewar evoking the preoccupations of age with a quiet authority… grounded in an awareness that experience and wisdom are qualities that are always hard-won'

Isla Dewar’s first book, Keeping Up with Magda, was published in 1995. Dewar found success with her second novel, Women Talking Dirty, the film of which starred Helena Bonham Carter. She contributed to the collection Scottish Girls about Town and has also written for children. Her most recent novel, It Takes One to Know One, was published by Polygon in 2018. Born in Edinburgh, Isla lived in the East Neuk of Fife with her husband, political cartoonist Bob Dewar. She died in July 2021.

'It rings so true, Dewar evoking the preoccupations of age with a quiet authority… grounded in an awareness that experience and wisdom are qualities that are always hard-won'