Amanda Mason

Amanda Mason is a British author of literary fiction and suspense. Her novel The Wayward Girls, a slow, eerie dual-timeline story of a group of girls in a decaying house in the 1970s and the documentary revisiting them decades later, was acclaimed as one of the breakout gothic novels of its year.

Mason writes women's fiction and psychological suspense with a strong sense of atmosphere and moral unease. Her carefully plotted stories, praised for their sense of dread and their compassion for their characters, mark her as one of the rising names in British serious fiction.