Gwendoline Riley

Gwendoline Riley was born in London in 1979.  She is the author of seven novels, including First Love, My Phantoms, and most recently, The Palm House.   In 2018, the Times Literary Supplement named her one of the twenty best British and Irish novelists working today.

Author photo: Susannah Baker-Smith

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