VANESSA SAVAGE
The debut thriller writer shares her top five reads with Judith Spelman
WRITER’S BOOKSHELF
Vanessa Savage’s debut novel is a psychological thriller that grips the reader from the start. She has twice been awarded a writer’s bursary by Literature Wales, most recently for her book The Woman in the Dark. Sphere won an auction for this debut novel in a six-figure deal for two books. You get an idea about this book when you learn it was first called The Murder House.
In 2016 she won the Myriad Editions First Crimes Competition and was highly commended for her entries in the Yeovil International Fiction Prize, the Harry Bowling Prize and the Caledonian Fiction Prize.
Vanessa lives by the sea in South Wales and is also a graphic designer and illustrator.
LITTLE WOMEN
Louisa May Alcott
This was my favourite childhood book and I still re-read it now. Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott. which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. It follows the lives of the four March sisters –Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy – and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. Who doesn’t long to be Jo, scribbling away in the garret, getting into scrapes with Laurie? I still cry when Beth gets ill and love reading about the lives of these Little Women.