![]() Her writing is published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vogue, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, Granta and elsewhere. She was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, 2018. She is the author of Bleaker House and Mrs Gaskell & Me (UK) / The Victorian & the Romantic (US/CAN), which won the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award. ![]() Her debut novel, Briefly, a Delicious Life, is out now. Jyoti Patel’s deeply moving coming-of-age story The Things That We Lost is both a profound meditation on what it means to be a person of colour in Britain today, and a beautifully tender exploration of family, loss, and the lengths we go to to protect the ones we love.īe amongst the first to hear from these three remarkable writers. Close to Home shines with intelligence and humanity on every page, asking: how do you decide what kind of a man you want to be? ![]() Always a highlight, this year’s debut writers panel is a cracker! Ali Smith welcomes three new novelists to Cambridge: Nell Stevens ( Briefly, a Delicious Life ), Michael Magee ( Close to Home ) and Jyoti Patel ( The Things That We Lost ).įrom acclaimed writer Nell Stevens, the richly witty, and utterly compulsive Briefly, a Delicious Life is about creativity, yearning love and the surprising consequences of one woman wearing a suit and wandering into a Mallorcan village, smoking a cigar.ĭrawing from his own experiences, Michael Magee examines the forces that keep young working-class men in harm’s way. ![]()
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