JESSICA MOOR

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.
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.

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 next novel, Hold Back the Night will be published by Bonnier in May 2024.