Charlotte Mendelson

Charlotte Mendelson’s previous novel, The Exhibitionist, was long listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and was The Times Novel of the Year 2022, as well as a book of the year in The Telegraph and The Guardian.

Her other novels include Almost English, which was long listed for both the Man Booker and the Women’s Prize for Fiction; When We Were Bad, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and was a book of the year in The Observer, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The New Statesman and The Spectator; and Daughters of Jerusalem, which won both the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.

Wife, her sixth novel, will be published in August 2024.

She was a publisher for twenty years, reviews and broadcasts and has been the Gardening Correspondent forThe New Yorker.

She lives in London.