Alison Moore is the author of The Lighthouse, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012, and The Pre-War House and Other Stories, nominated for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2013.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012
Born in Manchester in 1971, Alison Moore lives in a village near Nottingham with her husband Dan and son Arthur.
She is a member of Nottingham Writers’ Studio and an honorary lecturer in the School of English at Nottingham University.
Melancholy and haunting. The sense of loneliness and discomfort and rejection is compelling, the low key prose carefully handled. It's a serious novel with a distinctive and unsettling atmosphere.
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