With a BA in English and Philosophy, Genevieve worked for eleven years at the Weekend FT, where she helped create and launch How To Spend It magazine.

She volunteered for years as a National Trust guide at Ham House. This became the setting for her debut art heist novel, No Oil Painting, which was listed for the inaugural Women’s Prize Trust and Curtis Brown Discoveries Award. Genevieve's writing has also been listed for the Writers' & Artists' Short Story Competition and her flash fiction has been performed on the award-winning Failing Writers podcast.

Her writing uses dark humour to probe the difference between our perception of people and their true selves. The gulf between what is said and what is meant.  

 

Women aged over fifty are essentially invisible and she views this as a kind of superpower. Unlike her protagonist Maureen, she hasn’t used this to commit art theft. Yet.

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