Lucy Atkins is a British author and journalist. Her novels include ''Magpie Lane''. Her books have been published internationally and ''The Night Visitor'' (2017) has been optioned for television. Atkins is the daughter of the lexicographer

B. T. S. Atkins Beryl T. "Sue" Atkins (née Sinclair; 23 January 1931 — 3 September 2021) was a British lexicographer, specialising in computational lexicography, who pioneered the creation of bilingual dictionaries from corpus data. Biography Sue Atk ...

and the niece of linguist

John McHardy Sinclair John McHardy Sinclair (14 June 1933 – 13 March 2007) was a Professor of Modern English Language at Birmingham University from 1965 to 2000. He pioneered work in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, lexicography, and language teaching ...

. She teaches on the Creative Writing Master's degree at the University of Oxford. She is a literary critic for ''

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'' and served as a judge for the 2017

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She has co-presented features about books on

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. She has also written for UK other newspapers and magazines, including ''

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'', ''

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'', ''The Sunday Times'' and ''

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''.

Selected publications

Fiction

* ''The Missing One''. 2014. * ''The Other Child''. 2015. * ''The Night Visitor''. 2017. * ''Magpie Lane''. 2020.

Non-fiction

* Lucy Atkins. 2010. ''First-Time Parent: The honest guide to coping brilliantly and staying sane in your baby’s first year.'' HarperCollins. * Lucy Atkins and Frances Goodhart. 2011. ''The Cancer Survivor's Companion: Practical ways to cope with your feelings after cancer.'' 2011 Hachette UK.Reviewed by David Holmes. "Help at hand". Cancer and Society Volume 13, ISSUE 1, P21, 1 January 2012 *Frances Goodhart and Lucy Atkins. 2013. ''How to Feel Better: Practical ways to recover well from illness and injury.'' * Lucy Atkins. 2009. "The Benefits of Web Workouts." ''The Daily Telegraph.'' 1 June 2009.

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* 1968 births Living people writers from Oxford 21st-century British novelists British women novelists British journalists British women journalists 21st-century British women writers {{UK-journalist-stub