“Ashdown’s storytelling skills are formidable; her human insights highly perceptive.”   Mail on Sunday

For news, reviews and articles, visit www.isabelashdown.com

Isabel Ashdown was born in London in 1970 and grew up in East Wittering, a seaside village on the south coast of England.  She now lives in West Sussex with her family.

After fifteen years working in marketing, Isabel gave up her career to complete an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Chichester, and in 2008 an early extract of her debut novel Glasshopper won the Mail on Sunday Novel Competition.  Glasshopper was published to much critical acclaim, and was twice named as one of the best books of 2009 by the London Evening Standard and the Observer Review.  Her second novel, Hurry Up and Wait, was released in June 2011.

Isabel is the founder of Chichester Book Club, a website dedicated to reading groups and book clubs in her local area, where she and her fellow authors regularly run creative writing talks, readings and workshops across the South East.

She is represented by Kate Shaw at the Viney Agency.