Deborah is an award-winning author of fiction, short stories and flash fiction. Her novel 'The Wilder Path' won the Virginia Prize for Fiction 2024 and her novella 'Aerth' won the inaugural Weatherglass Books Novella award in 2024.Her work has also been long listed for the Mslexia Prize (2015), the Eludia Award (2020), the Bath Novella-in-Flash Award (2018, 2019). Shortlists include the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature (2018), the Yeovil Prize (2019), the Sandy River Novella Award (2020).In 2017 she founded Bristol Climate Writers, a local network of writers of all genres, from poets to travel writers, novelists to journalists. She is also a member of ClimateCultures, an extraordinary worldwide network of artists and scientists.

"A beautiful book. Tender, twisting and turning. Life seen through the eyes of a mother haunted. So beautifully written and full of surprises. Thank you so much to the author. Thank you to #netgalley and the publisher for an ARC." ***** Netgalley reviewer"This is the kind of book that creeps up on you, you can’t put it down before one more page, one more chapter… what is Rosalie going to do next? Sometimes you feel empathy, sometimes annoyance, occasionally horror but you cannot look away.Walking a coastal path goes wrong and Roly finds herself trapped. But it’s ok, she’ll be fine… but time goes on… she passes time thinking about her dead son and how little we actually know and understand people. She has a husband who loves her but cannot understand her grief ~ and especially cannot understand the ways she chooses to honour their son.It’s beautiful, it’s haunting, and it really makes you think about family, and love, and what matters in life. It’s a book I’ll think on long after I’ve closed it." **** Netgalley reviewer

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