Profits from first year royalties go to YoungMinds in memory of Lucia Joyce, who spent most of her life interred in an asylum.
Annabel Abbs is a writer and author. Her first novel, The Joyce Girl, won the 2015 Impress prize for New Writers, and has been sold to publishers in Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Germany, Spain and South America. It was longlisted for the Caledonia Novel Award, the Bath Novel Award, the Waverton GoodRead Award, was a Guardian Reader Pick 2016 and was selected for pitch at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival. She lives with her family in London.
‘This is a hugely impressive debut. Annabel Abbs has brought to
life an extraordinary cast of characters – Joyce, Beckett et al –
and painted their rackety, bohemian world in vivid technicolour.’ –
Lisa O’Kelly, Literary Editor, The Observer
‘Here is a powerful portrait of a young woman yearning to be an
artist, whose passion for life – and rage at being unable to fulfil
her talent – burns from the pages’. – Anita Sethi, The Observer
‘The best 20th-century fiction of the year.’ – Historical Novel
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