Zoe Deleuil

The Night Village

  • 5 ideas to help you finish a piece of writing

    While reading the Gillian Mear’s biography a few months back I discovered that when The Mint Lawn was reissued she had the opportunity to make a few changes.  Yet she more or less left it how it was. Perhaps she simply didn’t have it in her to go back to that book. It was so…

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  • The Night Village on the Readings Books list of best crime fiction of 2021

    Thanks to Readings Books for adding The Night Village to their list of the best crime books of 2021 – their resident crime reader and bookseller Fiona Hardy (who is also an award-winning author) wrote a wonderful review of The Night Village for Books & Publishing right before it came out, which got it off…

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  • Why the Barbican makes a compelling setting for a novel

    When I started writing my psychological suspense novel, The Night Village, about a new mother and her strange houseguest, I pictured the story unfolding in my old flat in Hackney. And then, in the same way a dream will suddenly shift location, my characters were all somehow living at the Barbican Estate in central London.…

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  • My debut novel ‘The Night Village’ is to be published by Fremantle Press in 2021

    My debut novel, The Night Village, will be published by Fremantle Press in Australia in 2021, with audiobook & large print versions by Ulverscroft. Here’s the blurb: Simone has just delivered her first baby in an East London hospital with her new English boyfriend, Paul, by her side. With a precarious job, her family and…

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