How to pitch your novel
Preparing to Pitch: The novelist salesperson “Can you summarise your novel in a sentence or two,” my marketer, Eloise asks,…
Abigail Dean was born in Manchester, and grew up in the Peak District. She graduated from Cambridge with a Double First in English. Formerly a Waterstones bookseller, she spent five years as a lawyer in London, and took summer 2018 off to work on her debut novel, Girl A, ahead of her thirtieth birthday. She now works as a lawyer for Google, and is currently writing her second novel, The Conspiracies.
Abigail Dean was born in Manchester, and grew up in the Peak District. She graduated from Cambridge with a Double First in English. Formerly a Waterstones bookseller, she spent five years as a lawyer in London, and took summer 2018 off to work on her debut novel, Girl A, ahead of her thirtieth birthday. She now works as a lawyer for Google, and is currently writing her second novel, The Conspiracies.
Lex Gracie doesn’t want to think about her family. She doesn’t want to think about growing up in her parents’…
“Girl A was a real ‘event’ book. What could have been shocking and sensationalist as a subject was dealt with by Abigail Dean in a really nuanced, humane way. Her characters are fantastically well-drawn and the gut-punch twist was handled particularly well.”
Joanne Finney
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