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Heidi James

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Chatham, The United Kingdom

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Contemporary, Fiction

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Joan Didion, Marie Darrieussecq, Maeve Brennan, Kathy Acker

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Heidi James was born in Chatham, Kent. (also home to Billy Childish and Charles Dickens) She has a PhD in English Literature and an MA in Creative Writing.

Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including Somesuch Stories, Dazed and Confused, Flux, Galley Beggars and Mslexia, as well as in the anthologies The Loose Cannon, Writing from the Edge and Turpin’s Cave.

Her novella The Mesmerist's Daughter (published by Neon Press in April 2015) won the 2015 Saboteur Award for Best Novella and she was a finalist for the Cinnamon Poetry Collection Prize. She was awarded the Sophie Warne Fellowship in 2008.

She lives in London with her family, including two rescue dogs, Rose and Jay.
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Average rating: 3.96 · 494 ratings · 99 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Sound Mirror 4.11 avg rating — 224 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	So the Doves 3.84 avg rating — 129 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wounding 3.92 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mesmerist's Daughter 4.21 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We'll Never Have Paris by Andrew Gallix (Editor), Deborah Levy, Tom McCarthy 3.12 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Carbon 4.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“All the houses sat blank, like masks - meaningless until someone was inside.”
― Heidi James, The Mesmerist's Daughter

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“Parents say they can't wait for their baby to speak and say dada and choo-choo train, but that's a lie. The quickest thing children learn to do is shut up. Eat silently with your mouth closed, don't slurp, burp, or fart. Don't breath through your mouth or suck your teeth or chew your lips when thinking. Don't try to suck up the juice of an apple when you take a big bite. And don't speak wen the telly is on. Just shut the fuck up.”
― Heidi James, The Mesmerist's Daughter

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