Bad Fiction

‘I loved it: a bleakly funny, off-kilter examination of the dynamics of power and attraction. I raced through it’ Rebecca Wait, author of I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

‘Rebecca Sarah Ley has nailed the creative writing workshop and how quickly a good story can turn addictively toxic. Beware the advice you receive, beware writing about what you know. Darker truths always lie behind imagined worlds’ Professor Henry Sutton, Director Creative Writing MA Prose Fiction, UEA

Praise for Rebecca Sarah Ley’s previous novel, Sweet Fruit, Sour Land…

Winner of the Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize 2018

Winner of a Betty Trask Prize 2019

Shortlisted for The Kitschies Golden Tentacle 2018

‘Beautifully and elegantly written… A slow burn to a very moving ending’ The Guardian Not the Booker Judges

‘Utterly absorbing and with prose to savour, this is a novel that will stay with me’ Hannah Kohler, author of The Outside Lands

‘Peppered with unusual, thought-provoking and at times poetic insight into memory, sense, questioning the status quo, including what feminist resistance looks like’ Laura Waddell, author of Exit

Rebecca Sarah Ley writes essays and fiction. Her first novel, Sweet Fruit, Sour Land (published under the name Rebecca Ley) won a Betty Trask Award and the Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize. Her essays have been published in Water Journal and shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize. Rebecca lives in North East London.