Alice Jolly

Alice Jolly writes novels, short stories, memoirs and plays. She has won the Pen Ackerley Prize and the V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize. Her novel ‘Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile’ was on the longlist for the Ondaatje Prize and was runner up for the £30,000 Rathbones Folio Prize. She has also been awarded an O. Henry Award (20 best short stories in the US). Her new novel ‘The Matchbox Girl’ (which is about Dr Asperger) will be published by Bloomsbury in November 2025.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On BBC Radio 4 and iPlayer
Alice Jolly's serial about love, loyalty and the meaning of care explores the complex and conflicting emotions at the heart of a family crisis.
Read by Fiona Button.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Listen to an audio extract of 'Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile' read by Kate Abraham and Jude Emmet, sound production by Simon Turner

 

 

 

 

 

 

Listen to a reading of 'From Far Around They Saw Us Burn'.
Full audio available from Spotify and Audible

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