Michelle Harrison

My first children’s novel, 13 Treasures, won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. The Other Alice won the Calderdale Book of the Year Award. A Pinch of Magic won a Dutch Bronze Pen Award and was a Waterstones Book of the Month. My books have been translated and sold in 25 territories worldwide.

Before becoming a full-time writer I worked in publishing as an editor, and before that, as a bookseller. Prior to that, I worked in bars, a bakery, and a second-hand record shop to make ends meet while trying to get my first book deal. I now live in Essex with my family and cats.

Two Little Liars, my first adult thriller, was more than a decade in the making. While it hints at superstition rather than the supernatural, it was inspired by a silver bottle in Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, said to contain a witch, as well as Osea island in Essex, and its eerie causeway (which features in the film, The Woman in Black). It’s a story of toxic teen dynamics, an unsolved murder and a lie with devastating consequences. I’m currently working on my second novel for adults.