Becoming Strangers

Louise Dean is a British novelist born in June 1970 in Hastings, England. Her debut novel Becoming Strangers (2004) won the Betty Trask Award and Le Prince Maurice Prize, was longlisted for the Booker Prize and Guardian First Book Award, and selected for the Oprah Book Club; subsequent works include This Human Season (2006), The Idea of Love (2008), and The Old Romantic (2010), praised by authors like J.M. Coetzee, with short stories in Granta and a 2021 Costa Book Awards short story finalist.com, LouiseDean.com