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Jill Dawson's latest novel PIXIE (Bloomsbury) tells the story of Pamela Colman Smith, illustrator of the world's most famous Tarot deck. The FT described it as a 'transcendent, full-bodied tale of artists who conjure spirits, meaning and societal social change through their practice.' Louise Doughty as a 'work of genius' ; Paula Hawkins as 'a captivating novel about the most famous Occult artist you never knew.'
THE BEWITCHING was published by Sceptre in the summer of 2022, and tells the true 16th century story of a nine year old girl who accuses her neighbour of being a witch, with dire consequences for all. Her other novels are TRICK OF THE LIGHT, MAGPIE, FRED AND EDIE, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and the Orange Prize, WILD BOY, WATCH ME DISAPPEAR, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize, THE GREAT LOVER, a Richard & Judy Summer Read and THE TELL TALE HEART, which was nominated for the Folio Prize. THE CRIME WRITER tells the imagined story of Patricia Highsmith's time living in Suffolk, and won The East Anglian Book of the Year and The East Anglian fiction prize. THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS tells the story of the nanny murdered in the Lucan household in the seventies.
Born in Durham, Jill Dawson grew up in Yorkshire. She has won prizes for poetry, short stories and fiction and held many Fellowships, including the Creative Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia, where she taught on the MA in Creative Writing course. In 2006 she received an honorary doctorate in recognition of her work and in 2020 became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in an eco house designed by her husband the architect Meredith Bowles in the Cambridgeshire Fens. She has read Tarot for forty years and is a certified Jungian Tarot reader and Iyengar Yoga teacher.

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