About the Author

Judith Allnatt is an acclaimed short story writer and novelist. Her first novel, A Mile of River, was a Radio Five Live Book of the Month and was shortlisted for the Portico Prize for Literature; her second novel, The Poet’s Wife, was shortlisted for the East Midlands Book Award. Her short stories have featured in the Bridport Prize Anthology, the Commonwealth Short Story Awards and on BBC Radio 4. She lives with her family in Northamptonshire.

Reviews

‘Genuinely and deeply moving’ THE TIMES ‘An engaging novel, softly-written, with rather a touching ending’ THE OXFORD TIMES ‘Deeply engaging and unsentimental…really memorable’ CHARLES PALLISER, author of The Quincunx Praise for The Poet’s Wife: ‘Allnatt gives her an affecting, beautifully written afterlife’
THE TIMES ‘'This is a beautifully written, poignant novel, lyrically descriptive of the landscape, detailed in the country life of the time and reminiscent of the gentle style of the genius peasant poet'
CHOICE MAGAZINE Praise for A Mile of River: 'A novel of rare insight, exquisitely written. A standing ovation for this debut’ MICHAEL MORPURGO ‘'Excellent…The writing is restrained but powerful and the description of that remorseless heat is masterful’
NEW BOOKS MAGAZINEPraise for The Poet’s Wife: ‘Allnatt gives her an affecting, beautifully written afterlife’
THE TIMES ‘'This is a beautifully written, poignant novel, lyrically descriptive of the landscape, detailed in the country life of the time and reminiscent of the gentle style of the genius peasant poet'
CHOICE MAGAZINE Praise for A Mile of River: 'A novel of rare insight, exquisitely written. A standing ovation for this debut’ Michael Morpurgo ‘'Excellent…The writing is restrained but powerful and the description of that remorseless heat is masterful’
NEW BOOKS MAGAZINE