Molly Aitken

MOLLY AITKEN grew up on the south coast of Ireland. Her first novel, The Island Child , was longlisted for the Authors' Club First Novel Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Ploughshares , for which she won the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, and has been dramatized for BBC Radio 4. She is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing and History at Sheffield Hallam University.

MOLLY AITKEN grew up on the south coast of Ireland. Her first novel, The Island Child , was longlisted for the Authors' Club First Novel Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Ploughshares , for which she won the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, and has been dramatized for BBC Radio 4. She is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing and History at Sheffield Hallam University. See less