Maggie Gee

Maggie Gee has published 15 books, including The Ice People, My Cleaner, The White Family, shortlisted for the International Impac and Orange (now Women’s) Prize, The Blue (stories), Virginia Woolf in Manhattan and most recently Blood (2019) which was on the Sunday Times’s ‘Best Literary Novels 2019’ list as well as their ‘Best Summer Reading 2019’ list, a black comedy-thriller about angry pre-Brexit Britain. Hilary Mantel described Blood as ‘An astonishing book. Funny and fierce, written with style and dash, without fear.’ Maggie has been translated into 15 languages. She has been warning against climate change in her fiction since Where Are the Snows (1991). She is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. The Red Children is forthcoming from Saqi in January 2022.