Bloodhound Books Welcomes Author Deborah Siddoway

We are thrilled to have author Deborah Siddoway joining us at Bloodhound and look forward to sharing her fantastic novel with our readers!

Deborah Siddoway was born in the Northeast of England and grew up in Sydney, Australia. She is currently a PhD candidate and tutor at Durham University in the Department of English. She attained an MA by research in Dickens Studies from the University of Buckingham for her thesis entitled The Twisting of the Ring: Dickens, Divorce and the Evolution of his Views on Marriage. She was awarded the 2019 Partlow Prize for her paper ‘Misfortnet Marriages’: Discussing Divorce in Household Words, published in the Dickens Quarterly in 2022. She has writter a number of papers on the subject of divorce and matrimonial law in the nineteenth century and is a contributor to a forthcoming book on Gender and Justice in Scotland. Writing has been a hobby since she was around eight (when she wrote a gripping 16 page re-telling of The Empire Strikes Back). Deborah has been longlisted in the Primadonna Festival Prize twice.

She lives in rural Northumberland with her children and her dog Brontë.