About

ABOUT EMILY

Emily’s latest novel, The Undoing of Violet Claybourne – reviewed in Good Housekeeping magazine, The Daily Mail; and Heat magazine’s book of the week – is out now in the UK and will be published in the U.S.A. and Canada on March 4th 2025.

One Puzzling Afternoon was selected as Indie Book of the Month and named a must-read by People magazine.

Notes on My Family, Emily’s debut YA/crossover novel, was long-listed for the Branford Boase award, shortlisted for the Bristol Teen Book Award, nominated for the Carnegie medal and featured as The Sunday Times book of the week. Emily is also the author of a book for children (9-12s) The Bear Who Sailed the Ocean on an Iceberg. 

Emily studied at London Metropolitan University where she won the 2014 Sandra Ashman prize for Creative Writing. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck, University of London.

Emily was born in Essex and has lived in Brighton and London. She currently lives in Hertfordshire.