Winner of The Betty Trask Prize. Winner Le Prince Maurice. Longlisted for the Booker Prize. Finalist for the Costa Coffee 2020 Short Story Award.

Louise Dean is a British author, born in Hastings, who read History at Cambridge University. Her novels have been published internationally and featured by the Oprah Book Club. The Wall Street Journal described Louise Dean as one of the world’s top five most under-rated authors. Louise is the founder of the creative writing school The Novelry.