Rachel Seiffert

(b.1971)

Rachel Seiffert is the author of The Dark Room, which won a Betty Trask Award and the Los Angeles Times's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and was short-listed for the Booker Prize. She has also received a David T. K. Wong award from PEN International for her work. After spending some years in Scotland and Germany, she now lives in London with her husband and son.

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

The Dark Room (2001)
Afterwards (2007)
Lore (2013)
The Walk Home (2014)
A Boy in Winter (2017)

Collections

Field Study (2004)
Architect / The Crossing (2011)
Blue / Tentsmuir Sands (2011)

Novellas

Dimitroff (2011)
Dog-Leg Lane (2011)
Francis John Jones, 1924- (2011)
The Late Spring (2011)
Reach (2011)
Second Best (2011)

Awards

	The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2001) : The Dark Room
	Betty Trask Award Best First Novel nominee (2002) : The Dark Room
	Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2007) : Afterwards
	Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2015) : The Walk Home

Rachel Seiffert recommends

The Seventh Cross (1942)
Anna Seghers
"A masterpiece. Written in the midst of terror, but with such clarity, such acuity; Seghers is a writer of rare insight."

Stronger Than Skin (2017)
Stephen May
"The story hooks you in lightly, and then takes a grip; a proper page-turner to the last."

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