Lucy Atkins


Lucy Atkins is a British author and journalist. She writes non-fiction books and reporting on health and parenting. She also writes suspense novels, including The Missing One, The Other Child, and The Night Visitor.
Atkins is a literary critic for The Sunday Times. She served as a judge in the 2017 Costa Book Awards and has talked about books on BBC Radio Oxford. She has also written for UK other newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, Psychologies, Red, Woman & Home, and Grazia.
Atkins is the daughter of the lexicographer B. T. S. Atkins and the niece of linguist John McHardy Sinclair.

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Fiction