Alice McVeigh
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Alice McVeigh

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Alice McVeigh has been published by Orion/Hachette in contemporary fiction, by UK's Unbound in speculative fiction (writing as Spaulding Taylor) and by Warleigh Hall Press in historical fiction. Her books have been in the last seven for the UK Selfies Book Award (London Book Fairs 2024, 2025), joint runners-up for Foreword Indies' "Book of the Year" (2022, 2024) and runner-up in Writers Digest International Book Awards. Three of her novels have been PUBLISHERS WEEKLY's starred "Editors Picks". McVeigh's multi-award-winning Austenesque series won First Place for Book Series (historical) in Chanticleer's International Book Awards IN 2023. McVeigh was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in Thailand, Singapore, and Myanmar, where her father was a US diplomat. After spending her teenage years in McLean, Virginia, and achieving a degree with distinction in cello performance at the internationally renowned Jacobs School of Music, she came to London to study cello with William Pleeth, married Professor Simon McVeigh, and has lived in London ever since. McVeigh spent over fifteen years performing worldwide with orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, and Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique. Her London-based cello career inspired her two contemporary novels (WHILE THE MUSIC LASTS and GHOST MUSIC). These were published by Orion Publishing to excellent reviews, including: “The orchestra becomes a universe in microcosm; all human life is here . . . McVeigh succeeds in harmonising a supremely comic tone with much darker notes”(THE SUNDAY TIMES). And: “McVeigh is a professional cellist and is thus able to describe with wry authority the extraordinary life of a London orchestra. This is a very enjoyable novel, and not quite as light as it pretends to be” (THE SUNDAY TIMES). In 2019, Alice was late-diagnosed as ADHD - a lucky break, as it turned out, which has enabled her to return to writing fiction. Since her diagnosis her Austen-inspired series have been finalists or winners of over 80 book awards. Alice and Simon's daughter, Rachel, is working on a PhD in Oriental Lit. at Harvard. Alice and Simon also share a love for London theatre, an unrequited passion for tennis, and a property in Crete.
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