Susan Beale 

Susan Beale’s first novel, The Good Guy, sold at auction to John Murray and was shortlisted for the 2016 Costa First Novel Award. Set in New England in the years leading up to the sexual revolution, the book explores the human capacity for deception, particularly self-deception.

Susan’s second novel, Misplaced Persons (John Murray, 2022) looks at Europe’s worst refugee crisis since the Second World War through the trials and tribulations of a multi-national family.

Susan Beale was brought up on Cape Cod and lives in Somerset. She is a graduate of the Bath Spa Creative Writing MA programme.