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Rebecca Whitney

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Thriller, Crime, Contemporary

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I have written two novels - THE LIAR'S CHAIR (2015) which was chosen for the Loose Women book club, and THE HIDDEN GIRLS (31 Dec 2020), published by Mantle / Macmillan. Both books deal with what I call 'the devil in the domestic' although my starting point is always a deep fascination with what makes ordinary people do the things they do, especially actions that are morally questionable. I’m just plain nosy.

My writing career didn’t begin until my forties, but looking back, I’ve always told stories in one form or another, I simply never imagined a career as a writer. During a degree in Creative Arts, I used narratives in my performance work, film and photography. On moving to London, I Hello, and thanks for visiting my Goodreads author page.

I have written two novels - THE LIAR'S CHAIR (2015) which was chosen for the Loose Women book club, and THE HIDDEN GIRLS (31 Dec 2020), published by Mantle / Macmillan. Both books deal with what I call 'the devil in the domestic' although my starting point is always a deep fascination with what makes ordinary people do the things they do, especially actions that are morally questionable. I’m just plain nosy.

My writing career didn’t begin until my forties, but looking back, I’ve always told stories in one form or another, I simply never imagined a career as a writer. During a degree in Creative Arts, I used narratives in my performance work, film and photography. On moving to London, I worked at Creation Records (the pre-Oasis years) then moved into film and TV production on music videos, commercials and documentaries, starting as tea-girl and ending up an executive producer - I was once honoured with the job of powdering Leigh Bowery’s face before he went on set, a later project involved sourcing a cargo plane to fly film-stock out of Tirana during the war in Kosovo. But it wasn’t until after having children that I went back to study creative writing to see if I had a book in me, and realised I had many more stories I wanted to tell.

I also teach creative writing, and have held characterisation workshops for Guardian Masterclasses, the Creative Writing Programme and Beach Hut Writing Academy, as well as holding poetry workshops for the YMCA. I work as an editor and mentor for emerging writers too. My short stories have been published in S-Magazine and shortlisted for the Bridport and Fish competitions, and my features have appeared in The Independent, Psychologies and Buzzfeed amongst others. I've spoken at events nationwide including Bloody Scotland, CrimeFest and the Isle of Wight Literary Festival. And very occasionally I DJ at music festivals.

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“In every room the recollection of my childhood is slight, and fireflies of memory disappear as soon as I turn my mind to them. I passed through my past, I didn't or couldn't savour the time, and now my history is huge and vacant, like a film I never finished watching.”
― Rebecca Whitney, The Liar's Chair

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“The little girl I used to be has become just another character I played, but somehow I've forgotten the lines of the script.”
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“The voices of the men outside recede, after which there’s another kind of quiet into which my thoughts drop, back into the hole of my past. I pick at the muck in there but it doesn’t go away. With the layers peeled back, I’m surprised at the density of the anger, but there’s no specific focus, nothing concrete to kick at, only a need to go back as far as I can to the beginning and extract the rotten tooth. Cauterize the infection. The persistent taps of memory, brushed off by years of distractions – men, work, marriage, booze – have latched on. The truth is crouched and ready . . .”
― Rebecca Whitney, The Liar's Chair

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