Lucy Atkins

Lucy Atkins
Born1968
Edinburgh, Scotland
NationalityBritish
EducationEnglish Literature
Alma materCorpus Christi College, Oxford
OccupationWriter
Notable workMagpie Lane
Windmill Hill
The Night Visitor
First Time Parent
The Cancer Survivor's Companion
Children3
Parent(s)B. T. S. Atkins, Peter Atkins
Websitelucyatkins.com

Lucy Atkins is a British author and journalist. Her novels include Magpie Lane, Windmill Hill and The Night Visitor. Her books have been published in the UK and internationally and The Night Visitor (2017) has been optioned for television.[1]

Personal life

Atkins is the daughter of the lexicographer B. T. S. Atkins and the niece of linguist John McHardy Sinclair. She teaches on the Creative Writing Master's degree at the University of Oxford.

Career

She is a literary critic for The Sunday Times and The Guardian and served as a judge for the 2017 Costa Book Awards[2] She has co-presented features about books on BBC Radio Oxford.[3] She has also written for UK other newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times and The Telegraph.[4]

Selected publications

Fiction

  • Windmill Hill. 2023.[5][6][7]
  • Magpie Lane. 2020.[8][9][10][11]
  • The Night Visitor. 2017.
  • The Other Child. 2015.
  • The Missing One. 2014.

Non-fiction

  • Lucy Atkins. 2010. First-Time Parent: The honest guide to coping brilliantly and staying sane in your baby’s first year. HarperCollins.
  • Lucy Atkins and Frances Goodhart. 2011. The Cancer Survivor's Companion: Practical ways to cope with your feelings after cancer. 2011 Hachette UK.[12]
  • Frances Goodhart and Lucy Atkins. 2013. How to Feel Better: Practical ways to recover well from illness and injury.
  • Lucy Atkins and Julia Guderian. 2005. Blooming Birth. How to Get the Pregnancy and Birth You Want.

References

  1. ^ "TV Option for Lucy Atkins's The Night Visitor". Greene & Heaton. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Costa Book Awards 2017 Shortlists Announced". Foyles. 21 November 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  3. ^ "David Prever's Breakfast Club". BBC Radio Oxford. 27 January 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  4. ^ Alan Zeichick. 2009. Net News: A-twitter over Twitter. netWorker Volume 13, Number 1 (2009), Pages 5-7.
  5. ^ Gale, Patrick (11 May 2023). "Windmill Hill by Lucy Atkins review – haunted by the past". The Guardian.
  6. ^ Nicol, Patricia (31 July 2023). "Windmill Hill by Lucy Atkins review — an entertaining read". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  7. ^ The Observer. "Hot off the press: authors pick their page-turners for summer" 2 Jul 2023
  8. ^ "Books to help you escape lockdown, chosen by Hilary Mantel, Edna O'Brien and more". The Guardian. 20 June 2020.
  9. ^ "Atmospheric, haunting Oxford thriller". The Canberra Times. 16 May 2020. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  10. ^ John Williams. "From the excellent Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins to the fast-paced latest from Matthew Hall and Joe Thomas' original Bent, thrillers of the week." 4 April 2020
  11. ^ "Jane Casey: On My Culture Radar". The Irish Times. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  12. ^ Reviewed by David Holmes. "Help at hand". Cancer and Society Volume 13, ISSUE 1, P21, 1 January 2012 "www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk". Archived from the original on 18 September 2016. Retrieved 8 April 2014.


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