NEW AUTHOR
NADIA ATTIA
MEET THE BFI TALENT EXECUTIVE BEHIND FOLK HORROR ROAD TRIP VERGE
LOUISE HAYWOOD-SCHIEFER
Tell us about your protagonists.
Rowena is headstrong and troubled, convinced that Death is stalking her; Halim is repressed and burning with anger at how the world treats him. I created them as opposites – she’s an English rose from a modest background, he’s an Egyptian “outsider” with wealth in the family – though both share the desire for freedom.