Alice Thompson

Alice Thompson (born in Edinburgh) is a Scottish novelist.

Thompson read English at Oxford and wrote her Ph.D. thesis on Henry James. In the 1980s she was a rock musician with the band The Woodentops. She now has a young son and lives in Edinburgh. Her novel Justine was the joint winner of the 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

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