Lottie Mills

By turns chilling and tender, darkly atmospheric and beautifully crafted, the stories that make up Lottie Mills' debut collection are a meditation on otherness. A mother rejects her daughter in favour of a meticulously created porcelain doll. A father and daughter build a life for themselves on an isolated beach, only to collide painfully with the outside world when their...

What does it mean to be different in a world that values perfection, at any cost? Lottie's writing is a superb flight of the imagination — A.S. Byatt, author of Possession Haunting, luridly beautiful, and at times shockingly, deliciously gruesome — Jenn Ashworth, author of Ghosted A 'Best Book for May 2024' according to Cosmopolitan From Lottie Mills, the winner...