Judith Wilson is a prize-winning writer of short stories. She also writes longer fiction. Her work is imbued with a strong sense of place, clarity of language, and a subtle sense of humour.
Meg Mason’s tender, painful, and funny novel, SOPHIE, STANDING THERE, tells the story of 30-something Sophie, who is struggling in the ruins of her marriage, and begins an unrequited obsession with a famous author she believes she will never meet. Set in the world of literary festivals, it’s an acutely observed foray into one woman’s loneliness, but is told with such excruciating honesty we’ll all recognise something of ourselves in Sophie Pattison.
Sophie Mackintosh’s laser-sharp novel of infidelity and love, PERMANENCE, is dreamlike in setting, but emotionally unflinching, as it traces the inevitable trajectory of Clara and Francis’s affair.
Through letters and emails, Virginia Evans’s well-observed epistolary novel, THE CORRESPONDENT (Penguin, £9.99) pieces together a dark family secret, hidden until now by its protagonist, feisty Sybil Van Antwerp.
