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Lucy Atkins

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Born
Edinburgh, The United Kingdom
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Fiction, Contemporary, Suspense

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April 2011

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Lucy Atkins is an award-winning author and journalist. Her bestseller, MAGPIE LANE, is a literary mystery set in an Oxford College, and was chosen as a Book of the Year by the Guardian, The Telegraph, Good Housekeeping magazine and Radio 4's Open Book. THE NIGHT VISITOR has been optioned for television. Her latest novel, WINDMILL HILL has been described as 'a triumph' by Philip Pullman and was a Summer Books 2023 pick in The Guardian and The Observer.

Lucy teaches on the Creative Writing Masters degree at Oxford University. She is a book critic for The Sunday Times, the Guardian, and other publications. She has also written several non-fiction books, including the Amazon #1 parenting bestseller, First-Time Parent (Collins, 2008).


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Windmill Hill is out in the world!

Windmill Hill is now out in the world after a series of pre-publication events, reviews, a launch party, and an ongoing book tour.

It’s been wild to go from the solitude of the writing shed, into Festivals, bookshops & parties. It’s been so long since I did this. Magpie Lane was published in the very first week of lockdown, so that book tour, and two launch parties*, were cancelled. This is, essen

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“People are all the same, really. The one thing you can rely on is that they will behave exactly as you feared they might.”
― Lucy Atkins, The Night Visitor
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“It is, I’ve realized, entirely possible to hold two realities in one’s mind simultaneously, and to believe them both at a visceral level.”
― Lucy Atkins, The Night Visitor
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“People used to hide things under the floorboards to distract the evil spirits, so they wouldn’t hurt the family. A sort of decoy.”
― Lucy Atkins, The Night Visitor
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