LyndaClark is the author of one previous novel, Beyond Kidding (2019), and theshort story collection Dreaming in Quantum and Other Stories (2021). BeyondKidding is in development for a feature with Film4. Her short fiction has wonthe Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Europe and Canada and has appeared onnumerous shortlists including for the BBC National Short Story Award. She has aPhD in Creative and Critical Writing and is currently a Lecturer in CreativeWriting at the University of Edinburgh. Born in Nottingham, she now lives onthe East Coast of Fife.

‘An engrossing tale about loneliness, longing and difference. Clark is a talented writer who has produced a very funny, gripping and heart-warming novel celebrating love in all its various forms. In presenting the perspective of appliances and machines, Strange Talk is compelling and unputdownable – I didn’t want it to end!’ —Caitríona Lally, Rooney Prize-winning author of Eggshells and Wunderland‘This book is a joy: it’s hugely funny, endlessly inventive and oddly touching. Strange, seductive and delightfully surprising, above all it transforms the world into a richer place.’ —Jane Alexander, author of A User’s Guide To Make-Believe‘An utterly unique, compelling delight’ —Xalavier Nelson Jr., video game developer and writer‘Our tech already speaks to us, but Strange Talk asks what might happen if those voices were truly their own. A playful and inventive novel exploring technology, videogame culture and different ways of being’ —Violet Berlin, presenter, producer and writer‘Behind the odd premise is a moving narrative about isolation, nonconformity and a family’s deep scars, which – refreshingly – works in tandem with the oddness rather than diminishing it’ —Polis Loizou, author of A Good Year