Jenni Fagan
I am a Scottish novelist and poet. My debut novel The Panopticon is published in the UK, US and Europe. I have just completed the first draft of my second novel The Sunlight Pilgrims. My poetry collections are Urchin Belle and The Dead Queen of Bohemia. My work has been nominated and shortlisted...
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I am a Scottish novelist and poet. My debut novel The Panopticon is published in the UK, US and Europe. I have just completed the first draft of my second novel The Sunlight Pilgrims. My poetry collections are Urchin Belle and The Dead Queen of Bohemia. My work has been nominated and shortlisted for various prizes including The Pushcart & The James Tait Black Prize. In 2013 I was included on the once a decade Best of Young British Novelists under 40 by Granta magazine. I am currently Writer In Residence at Edinburgh University and I live in a coastal village with my toddler.
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I couldn't finish the first book this author wrote, but I read the reviews for this book and thought I would give her a second chance. I did finish this book. However, I was not enthralled whatsoever. Mostly they would talk about how cold it was and would give the temperatures, the mom was and had b...
This is not the brutal story "The Panopticon" is, but then "The Sunlight Pilgrims is not as powerful either. There are similarities, as with teenagers being a focus of each novel, but 'Sunlight' does not feel rushed and the temperatures keep getting lower and lower. I would have liked to know mo...
I was expecting the next apocalyptic story, where the world slowly freezes over the period of a long and freakish winter. While this is indeed a part of the story, to me it felt in the end as the minor part. Sure, there's talk about how cold it is and people are freezing to death in the streets (app...
Jenni Fagan’s The Sunlight Pilgrims has, in all of the reviews I’ve seen so far, been billed as the latest climate fiction must-read. According to the reviews, the world as we know it is coming to an end as a new Ice Age arrives. We watch the weather get colder and colder through the eyes of a man, ...
I got this book from the Early Reads giveaway page at Library Thing, and it was such an amazing gift from the author! I enjoy post-apocalyptic fiction, and while this was set while the apocalypse was building, I enjoyed it as much or more than any of the many books I've read in the genre. Not onl...
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