Jessica Moor grew up in south-west London and studied English at Cambridge before completing a Creative Writing MA at Manchester University, where her dissertation was awarded  the Creative Writing Prize for Fiction.

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Prior to this she spent a  year working in the violence against women and girls sector and this experience inspired her first critically acclaimed novel, Keeper.

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She was selected as one of the Guardian's 10 best debut novelists of 2020 and published her second novel, Young Women, to critical acclaim in 2022.

 

Her third novel, Hold Back the Night was published by Bonnier in May 2024, to critical acclaim.

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She is currently working on her next novel, Portrait of a Woman; a gothic reimagining of the muse and artist Lizzie Siddal's life with the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood artist, Dante Rossetti.