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"What it's like to grow up with 12 siblings?". ^ "More FitzGerald for Faber | The Bookseller".
2020 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, shortlisted for Worst Case Scenario. 2014 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award for The Cry. 2010 Spinetingler Award for The Devil's Staircase. 2010 Davitt Award for The Devil's Staircase. Brilliant stuff." Nominations įitzGerald has been nominated for several awards, including: The Cry is a remarkable novel – its devastating power all the stronger for its realistic rendering. It plays on the deepest, darkest fears of all parents about their children, and embeds that everyday terror in a plot so up-to-the-minute that you'll swear it's been lifted from the pages of a newspaper. It is utterly harrowing, completely plausible, constantly nerve-shredding. The Cry has received the widest critical acclaim of any of FitzGerald's novels to date, with Fitzgerald's friend Doug Johnstone from The Independent on Sunday stating: "Astonishingly good. Novelist Mark Abernethy wrote of FitzGerald: "She has managed to do what Fay Weldon did in The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, which is to find the joke in what appalls us." Australian critic Sally Murphy described the novel as compelling but hard to classify, with "elements of chick-lit mixed with ghastly scenes of murder and retribution", while Adelaide writer Cath Kenneally highlighted FitzGerald's technique of underpinning audacious and potentially shocking material – " working blue" – with " sociological acumen". They argued that it belonged to a different, more psychologically complex tradition, characterised by the dark humour and flawed anti-heroines of writers such as Tama Janowitz and Fay Weldon. Ī few critics noted that FitzGerald's first book, while generally described as a crime novel, did not follow the traditional rules of the genre. #Utterly appalls serial
The Cry, published 2013, The Cry was adapted as a BBC serial (2018) starring Jenna Colman and Ewen Leslie. Amelia O'Donohue is SO not a Virgin, published 2010. Her books are mostly thrillers, though she herself has described her genre as " Domestic Noir", a term coined by her fellow author Julia Crouch.įitzGerald has written twelve novels to date: She states that the rules of screenwriting are very stringent, but that in having learned them she has improved as a writer. 
However, she became frustrated with the industry when none of her subsequent screenplays were produced, and she turned to novel-writing.
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Writing įitzGerald began as a screenwriter, writing scripts for a series of educational children's dramas for BBC Scotland.
She cites her experience as a social worker an inspiration in the subject matter of her writing. She quit this job for a time to focus solely on her writing career, before returning to the field part-time. She began writing while working as a criminal justice social worker, where for a period she worked with serious sex offenders in Glasgow's Barlinnie Prison. She studied English and History at the University of Melbourne, before later attending Glasgow University where she completed a Diploma and Masters in Social Work. She was raised in the country town of Kilmore, Victoria the twelfth in a family of thirteen children.
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