Janet Ellis – författare

***LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2016***''KNOWS HOW TO KEEP HER AUDIENCE HOOKED'' The Times''A MASTERFUL STORYTELLER'' Clare Mackintosh''DARK, WEIRD AND GLORIOUSLY FEMINIST'' ElleGeorgian London, in the summer of 1763.At nineteen, Anne Jaccob, the elder daughter of well-to-do parents, meets Fub the butcher''s apprentice and is awakened to the possibilities of joy and passion. Anne lives a sheltered life: her home is a miserable place and her parents have already chosen a more suitable husband for her than Fub. But Anne is an unusual young woman and is determined to pursue her own happiness in her own way......even if that means getting a little blood on her hands.''A SHARP EYE AND A SHARPER WIT'' Guardian''A SPIRITED, DARK DEBUT'' Woman & Home''STRANGE, DARK AND UTTERLY MESMERIC'' Hannah Kent*And Janet Ellis''s second, darkly compelling novel, How It Was, is out now*

AS FEATURED ON EMMA KENNEDY''S BOOKSHELF''IMMERSIVE, AMAZING, REMARKABLE'' MARIAN KEYES''JANET ELLIS WRITES WITH TENDERNESS AND WISDOM'' ERIN KELLY''AN ATMOSPHERIC, CLEVER NOVEL THAT WILL GET UNDER YOUR SKIN'' REDMarion Deacon sits by the hospital bed of her dying husband, Michael. Outwardly she is, as she says, an unremarkable old woman. She has long concealed her history - and her feelings - from the casual observer. But as she sits by Michael''s bed, she''s haunted by memories from almost forty years ago . . . Marion Deacon is a wife and mother, and not particularly good at being either. It''s the 1970s and in her small village the Swinging 60s, the wave of feminism, the prospect of an exciting life, have all swerved past her. Reading her teenage daughter''s diary, it seems that Sarah is on the threshold of getting everything her mother Marion was denied, and Marion cannot bear it - what she does next has terrible and heart-breaking consequences for the whole family.Janet Ellis writes of the exquisite pain of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, the complexity of family and a mother-daughter relationship that is as memorable as it is utterly believable.''ELLIS WRITES BEAUTIFULLY'' DAILY MAIL''AN EMOTIONAL EPIC'' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING''AFFECTING, ENGAGING AND READABLE'' OBSERVER''A TALE OF SILENCES, SECRETS AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS'' MAIL ON SUNDAY''ENGROSSING'' MIRROR