![]() ![]() ![]() Named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2013, she was spent that year mentored by Margaret Atwood. Working on a programme about electric eels for the BBC while writing The Power provided creative inspiration, too: the supernatural element to the novel is that girls generate and channel their own destructive electricity. I think that’s a massively valuable discipline for any artist”. You can't write a thing that is hermetically sealed there has to be a way for the audience to get in and participate. ![]() Her numerous strands of work often feed each other directly: game design taught her that “you have to leave room for your player. Her novels Lessons (2010) and The Liars’ Gospel (2012) soon followed – and in the meantime, she co-created a top-selling smartphone game called Zombies, Run! and wrote the Doctor Who tie-in novel Borrowed Time (2011). ![]() Translated into 10 languages, it earned her the 2006 Orange Award for New Writers, the 2007 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, and a place among Waterstones' 25 Writers for the Future. Disobedience was an immediate success, if (or perhaps because of) a little controversial for its subject matter. She attended Oxford and then the University of East Anglia to study creative writing before becoming a novelist. ![]()
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