Nicola Garrard’s first novel, 29 Locks (HopeRoad, 2021), was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize and the Mslexia Children’s Novel competition, and longlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2022 and the Berkshire Book Award. It was picked by Suzi Feay in the Financial Times as one of their ‘Best Books of 2021’. Her second novel, 21 Miles (HopeRoad, 2023) was described by Aoife Fitzpatrick, winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2020 and author of The Red Bird Sings as ‘spectacular and unforgettable. With one of the most moving endings that I have ever read, Garrard’s brilliant, compelling, insightful prose kept me gripped from start to finish.’

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