Elizabeth Hand

United Kingdom and British Commonwealth only: Represented in these territories on behalf of Martha Millard at Sterling Lord Literistic.

Elizabeth Hand is a New York Times notable and multiple award-winning author. She has written seven novels, including the cult classics WAKING THE MOON and GENERATION LOSS, and short-story collections. She is a longtime contributor to numerous publications, including the Washington Post Book World and the Village Voice Literary Supplement. Born in 1957, and the oldest of five children in a large, mostly Irish Catholic clan, Elizabeth grew up in Yonkers and Pound Ridge, NY, before moving to Washington, D.C. in 1975 to study play-writing and cultural anthropology at Catholic University.

Elizabeth worked for a number of years at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air & Space Museum, before moving in the 1980s to a small town on the Maine coast with her former partner and father of her two teenage children. She and her two children divide their time between the coast of Maine and North London.

You can learn more about Elizabeth’s novels, and how her life has influenced her writing on her website.

Agent Contact: John Berlyne

titles


WYLDING HALL

Cass Neary Series:

  1. GENERATION LOSS
  2. AVAILABLE DARK

covers

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  • WYLDING HALL
  • Cass Neary Series: GENERATION LOSS and AVAILABLE DARK

translations

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WYLDING HALL
- PS Publishing (UK, 2016)

Cass Neary Series:
- GENERATION LOSS - Constable & Robinson (UK, 2013)
- AVAILABLE DARK - Constable & Robinson (UK, 2013)

reviews

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    • GENERATION LOSS
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      ‘Fiercely frightening yet hauntingly beautiful, with a startling heroine you”ll never forget… Shimmers with gorgeous writing even as it scares the dickens out of you.’  —  Tess Gerritsen

      ‘Intense and atmospheric, Generation Loss is an inventive brew of postpunk attitude and dark mystery. Elizabeth Hand writes with craftsmanship and passion.’  —  George Pelecanos

      ‘A skin blistering crime novel as edgy and black as dried blood on a moonlit night.’  —  Robert Crais

      ‘Ferocious, aching with compassion and cruelly brilliant.’  —  Katherine Dunn

      ‘Although Generation Loss moves like a thriller, it detonates with greater resound. It”s a dark and beautiful novel.’  —  Washington Post Book Review

    • AVAILABLE DARK
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      ‘Cass Neary… makes Lisbeth Salander seem like a model of mental stability… Stunning.’  —  Publishers Weekly

      ‘In the spirit of Stieg Larsson”s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo… As the dark Nordic forest thickens, so does the plot. Larsson fanatics may be unable to resist.’  —  New York Post

      ‘Pulsing with tension throughout… charged with its own chilling luminosity.’  —  Washington Post

      ‘A gasoline burn of a book; but it”s also a tightly-plotted noir thriller…Unputdownable.’  —  The Rejectionist

      ‘A brilliant sequel to Hand”s acclaimed literary thriller GENERATION LOST… Stunning.’  —  Booklist (Starred Review)