
Molly Aitken
@mollyaitken1
BRIGHT I BURN
@Belletristbooks September Book Club
@canongatebooks 🇬🇧🇮🇪 & @aaknopf 🇺🇲
THE ISLAND CHILD
Creative Writing PhD at @sheffhallamuni
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Revs of Maureen Callahan's Ask Not, Karen O'Connor's Meeting Mae, Molly Aitken's Bright I Burn, Karen Swan's The Lost Lover & Donal Ryan's Heart Be At Peace in this wk's papers. Gill Hess Associates HarperCollins_Ire Poolbeg Penguin Books Ireland Annie Ryan Doubleday Books Courtney Fitzmaurice



I am still buzzing that the amazing cover design of Bright I Burn is now the October logo for Alfred A. Knopf I mean just look at this fiery beauty. And please, everyone pinch me.

Concur. The Alfred A. Knopf logo is lit.






My STACKED for Belletrist book club. Goddess tier: Hamnet ~ Maggie O'Farrell The Ice Queen ~ Alice Hoffman Matrix ~ Lauren Groff Wolf Hall ~ Hilary Mantel (obviously) Girl With a Pearl Earring ~ Tracy_Chevalier & loads of others including a token man instagram.com/reel/DBeIrHwvA…

Sure it’s only the The New Yorker Absolutely nothing to be dramatic about at ALL. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…




I always thought I had an unrequited romance with The New Yorker but it turns out they love me back. Bright I Burn is on the 'Best Books of 2024' newyorker.com/best-books-2024



📮📮BOOK POST📮📮 Many thanks Canongate (has left) for this stunning copy of #BrightIBurn by Molly Aitken Sounds like a fascinating read and it’s available to buy now.


Absolutely thrilled to have #LucyRose & Molly Aitken with us discussing #TheLamb & #BrightIBurn - a gentle chat about cannibalism, folklore, mothers & daughters,plague pits, living in a rural setting & the tropes that throws up. Don’t enter the cottage in the woods!!!! 🥩🦴📚

