Maggie Ritchie’s novel, Looking for Evelyn, was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize for Best Published Novel 2018. Her debut novel, Paris Kiss (2015), won the Curtis Brown Prize, was runner up for the Sceptre Prize, and longlisted for the Mslexia First Novel Competition. Daisy Chain was published by Two Roads/Hachette in 2021 following a Society of Authors funded research trip to Shanghai. Maggie graduated with Distinction from the University of Glasgow’s MLitt in Creative Writing. A journalist, she lives in Scotland with her husband and son.

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