Effie Black

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Effie Black

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Effie Black is a London-based writer with a background in science. She enjoys writing from a queer perspective and she likes bringing a spot of science into her fiction too.

Effie’s short stories have appeared in Litro and the époque press é-zine. Her debut novel, In Defence of the Act, was released in July 2023.

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Average rating: 3.99 · 1,410 ratings · 262 reviews · 2 distinct worksSimilar authors
In Defence of the Act

3.99 avg rating — 1,353 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions
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4.14 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2023
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In Defence of the Act by Effie Black
"Audiobook - 4.5 rounded up. I loved, listened to it so fast, protagonist was likeable and felt real. Interesting story about imperfect (sometimes dangerously so) people and the good and bad bits of them.
Not a perfect book (some kind of predictability" Read more of this review »
In Defence of the Act by Effie Black
"This book was probably a pretty firm 3/5* up until about halfway through. Then, something seemed to flip, and I couldn't get enough of it - hence 4*. By the end of the book, I felt really close to the narrator, I felt the journey she'd been on, and -" Read more of this review »
Effie Black and 1 other person liked Matt's review of In Defence of the Act:
In Defence of the Act by Effie Black
"A painful tale of family and loss. Very real, very gritty"
In Defence of the Act by Effie Black
"I could not stop reading this. Absolutely absorbing. May have brought me to tears on the tube…"
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“It isn’t a poor-little-me abuse porno.”
Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

“She read the entire menu aloud to Jo and me, word for word. If she especially liked the sound of a dish, she repeated it. I remember how surreal it felt, but how I’d simply passed it off as maybe something other people like to do; have menu recitals.”
Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

“Sharing is the currency of friendship, perhaps everywhere, but especially at university.”
Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

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