Alex Nye

Alex Nye was born in Leicester in 1964 and grew up near the sea in King's Lynn, Norfolk. As a child she read constantly and was aware of loving books and writing from a very early age. She wrote countless first chapters of unfinished novels, which all ended up under her bed in cardboard boxes. Reading was, and is, a real pleasure to her. At the age of sixteen Alex entered the W. H. Smith Young Writers Award, and was one of the top ten winners out of 33,000 entrants. At nineteen she went to King's College, London, and as soon as she finished her degree she took part-time jobs in bookshops and libraries, and wrote the rest of the time. She also took on work as a Reader for a literary agent, in order to 'fund the habit' of writing. In 1995 Alex moved from London up to Dunblane with her son who was a year old at the time. They lived on Sheriffmuir in a remote cottage, and this provided the inspiration for Chill. She wrote the book out of a strong sense of longing and nostalgia, which comes across in the novel. As her children were quite young, she snatched time in between school and nursery hours, or wrote in the evenings after they went to bed. She still lives in Dunblane with her son and daughter

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