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Jill Dawson

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Durham, The United Kingdom

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http://www.jilldawson.co.uk/

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Jill Dawson was born in Durham and grew up in Staffordshire, Essex and Yorkshire. She read American Studies at the University of Nottingham, then took a series of short-term jobs in London before studying for an MA in Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. In 1997 she was the British Council Writing Fellow at Amherst College, Massachussets.

Her writing life began as a poet, her poems being published in a variety of small press magazines, and in one pamphlet collection, White Fish with Painted Nails (1990). She won an Eric Gregory Award for her poetry in 1992.

She edited several books for Virago, including The Virago Book of Wicked Verse (1992) and The Virago Book of Love Letters (1994). She has also edited a collection of short stories, Scho ...more

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Financial Times reviews ‘Pixie’

Financial Times reviewer Susie Mesure gave Pixie a rave review! ‘All the best novelists are magicians, conjuring people from the printed page, but some, like Jill Dawson, are particular masters of the occult: bringing figures hidden from history to life. In Pixie, her engrossing 11th novel, Dawson’s forgotten focus is the occult artist Pamela Colman […]

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Jill Dawson’s books

Average rating: 3.54 · 4,805 ratings · 747 reviews · 42 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Crime Writer 3.43 avg rating — 814 ratings — published 2016 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Lover 3.26 avg rating — 695 ratings — published 2009 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Language of Birds 3.76 avg rating — 585 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fred & Edie 3.64 avg rating — 487 ratings — published 2000 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bewitching 3.56 avg rating — 457 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Watch Me Disappear 3.27 avg rating — 323 ratings — published 2006 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lucky Bunny 3.47 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 2011 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tell-Tale Heart 3.37 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 2014 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wild Boy 3.54 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trick of the Light 3.76 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“That's a rare thing: to love someone, not for how you think of them, but for how they think of themselves.”
― Jill Dawson, Lucky Bunny

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“It needs time, perspective, to show you that someone might be original.”
― Jill Dawson, The Tell-Tale Heart: A Novel

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“That was the moment I knew I wouldn’t be here for ever – I mean, here on this earth. It went something like this. Just in case. In case you think we’re finished, we’re nothing, we’re nobody, Fen folk, from another era, people you can’t imagine in your modern life with your train travel and your ebooks and your slick city stuff; we’re the slype of the land at the back of Fen river banks – we’re earth, we’re bog oak, we’re dirt, from long ago, invisible. Still, we’re not finished, no way – you’ll find out.”
― Jill Dawson, The Tell-Tale Heart

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