Alice Mitchell

Alice Mitchell won a Betty Trask Award in 1985 for her first novel, Instead of Eden which was published by W H Allen in 1986. This is the story of three generations of women with the granddaughter growing up in the seventies in Yorkshire and Liverpool. After many years working as a medical doctor in the Wirra, Chesterl and North Wales , Alison retired and published her second novel, The Mortimer Affair in 2020. This is set in the turbulent reign of Edward II and written from the perspective of Joan de Joinville who becomes Lady Mortimer, wife of the infamous Roger Mortimer. Her third and latest novel, The Golden Door was published in 2024 by Arcanum Press Ltd and tells the story of several European emigrants to America in the mid nineteenth century. Alison returned to Bronte Country in West Yorkshire where she was born and grew up in 2020.