Alison Moore's short stories have been included in Best British Short Stories and Best British Horror and broadcast on BBC Radio. She has published two collections: The Pre-War House and Other Stories, whose title story won the New Writer Novella Prize, and Eastmouth and Other Stories. She's the author of five Nightjar Press chapbooks, including When the Door Closed, It Was Dark and The Junction.
Her first novel, The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Awards, winning the McKitterick Prize. Both The Lighthouse and her second novel, He Wants, were Observer Books of the Year. Her most recent novel is The Retreat. She has also published a trilogy for children, beginning with Sunny and the Ghosts.
Born in Manchester, she lives in a village on the Leicestershire-Nottinghamshire border and is an Honorary Assistant Professor in the School of English at the University of Nottingham.
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Melancholy and haunting. The sense of loneliness and discomfort and rejection is compelling, the low key prose carefully handled. It's a serious novel with a distinctive and unsettling atmosphere.
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