Tiffany grew up in haunted houses in Scotland, Wales and Herefordshire. Her novels Diamond Star Halo and Happy Accidents were shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, the London Book Award, and Diamond Star Halo was a Guardian book of the year. Her work has drawn comparisons to Stella Gibbons and Dodie Smith. Tiffany has been a Hay Festival International Writing Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar, and her academic posts have included Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of South Wales.
'A beautiful and haunting book. Tiffany Murray is a wonderful storyteller.' Sarah Winman, author of When God Was a Rabbit 'As darkly tantalising as any enchanted forest, a novel that sees a writer with the lightest of touches take on the deepest of our fears - spellbinding.' Tim Butcher, author of The Trigger 'Sugar Hall is not just a brilliantly effective ghost story. It also pries open a window on to a vanished decade, exploring the long consequences of old sins and the suffering of the exile, the refugee and the powerless. Chillingly empathetic, it's a book that cries out to be read again - and again.' Andrew Taylor, author of The American Boy and The Scent of Death 'A shiveringly good read, Sugar Hall reminds me of the days when I used to read under the bedcovers with a torch, because I simply had to find out what happened next.'Aminatta Forna, author of The Hired Man "Tiffany Murray isn't quite like anyone else writing today. She's a mad geneticist of a writer, specialising in taking narrative elements we think we know and splicing them with the unexpected, giving us Emily Bronte the rock chick (Diamond Star Halo) or Stella Gibbons with a louchely 70s drug habit (Happy Accidents). Sugar Hall lingers in the mind like a half-remembered nightmare and confirms Murray's as an intensely British talent." Patrick Gale (author of Notes from an Exhibition and A Perfectly Good Man) 'Sugar Hall is a dark tale brightly told, beautifully written and thoroughly unsettling.' Emylia Hall, author of The Book of Summers and A Heart Bent Out of Shape 'Tender, troubling and telling, Sugar Hall is a box of delights. With prose delicate as moth scales, Tiffany Murray has written her best book to date, a simply delicious and creepy read,' Jon Gower
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