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A Granta Best Young British Novelist 'A thrilling love for the stuff of language … Magical' JON McGREGOR 'A visionary writer' JAN CARSON 'Erudite and audacious' KIERAN GODDARD

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‘For every brush with darkness in these wonderful stories, there is a counterpoint of light, bright enough to come off the page and go with you about your day. I don’t know anyone else who can write like this – language does something special for Eley Williams. What a joy!’ Ben Pester, author of Am I in the Right Place? Praise for Eley Williams: ‘You feel in the safe hands of a storyteller dedicating their talent to our pleasure’ Observer 'One of the most promising young British writers to emerge in the past few years’ Financial Times ‘Readers of her short stories have been beguiled … the world in all its weirdness’ Guardian 'It's exhilarating to dive into the associative rush of Williams' writing’ Vanity Fair 'She is a writer for whom one struggles to find comparison, because she has arrived in a class of her own’ Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent 'No fiction writer is more exciting on sentence level than Eley Williams’ The White Review 'There's no one working in the UK quite like her’ Jay Walsh, author of Girl Online: A User Manual 'Funny, playful and utterly bravura’ Melissa Harrison, Financial Times ‘Gorgeous, brilliant’ Max Porter, author of Grief Is The Thing With Feathers 'It is impossible not to identify with Williams' candid observations of the quirks and quandaries of emotional life. Her experimentation is not a case of obfuscation: we come away feeling that we know precisely what she means’ Times Literary Supplement ‘Think William Gass, Lydia Davis or Anne Carson, and you won't be too wrong’ Michael Hofmann, London Review of Books '[The] most exciting of young British writers … Williams luxuriates in words and wordplay, in definition and precision and invention' Big Issue

Praise for Eley Williams: 'It's exhilarating to dive into the associative rush of Williams's writing' Vanity Fair 'She is a writer for whom one struggles to find comparison, because she has arrived in a class of her own' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent 'No fiction writer is more exciting on sentence level than Eley Williams' The White Review 'There's no one working in the UK quite like her' Joanna Walsh 'Funny, playful and utterly bravura' Melissa Harrison, Financial Times 'Gorgeous, brilliant' Max Porter, author of Grief Is The Thing With Feathers 'It is impossible not to identify with Williams's candid observations of the quirks and quandaries of emotional life. Her experimentation is not a case of obfuscation: we come away feeling that we know precisely what she means' Times Literary Supplement 'Think William Gass, Lydia Davis or Anne Carson, and you won't be too wrong' Michael Hoffmann, London Review of Books '[The] most exciting of young British writers ... Williams luxuriates in words and wordplay, in definition and precision and invention' Big Issue

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Eley Williams' collection of fiction Attrib. and Other Stories (2017) was awarded the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her novel The Liar's Dictionary won a 2021 Betty Trask Award, was shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and listed as a Guardian Book of the Year. Her writing is published in journals and anthologies including Modern Queer Poets, The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story edited by Philip Hensher, and Liberating the Canon edited by Isabel Waidner, with stories and serialised fiction also commissioned by Radio 4. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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