Francesca Reece is a writer and translator from North Wales. Her debut novel, Voyeur, was published by Tinder Press as a lead title in June 2021, and also became a bestseller in Germany. She was the 2019 recipient of the Desperate Literature Prize, and has had work featured in The London Magazine, Banshee, and Elle UK. After several years spent living in Paris, she is now based in London. Her second novel, Glass Houses, was published in May 2024, and has been optioned for TV.

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‘A super exciting, sultry, summery book … It's devastatingly witty, compulsively readable and a little like Sally Rooney meeting Martin Amis in Paris.’ – Francine Toon, author of Pine  

'Voyeur is a salty, sultry exploration of desire and aspiration. It fractures fragile masculinity and illuminates the traces of the past in the present. It is wry, funny and wild, yet warns us of the dangers of a singular narrative and shows us the importance of being the protagonist of your own story.' – Jessica Andrews, author of Saltwater 

‘Unsettling, addictive, and razor-sharp, Francesca Reece is a devastatingly compelling new voice in literary fiction.’ – Louise O’Neill, author of Idol

‘Glass Houses has the rare quality of handling heavy subjects with a real lightness of touch – how people shape places and how places shape people in turn, how the complexities of cultural identity are braided into the complexities of selfhood, how what we own will so often, in the final reckoning, come to own us.’ – Keiran Goddard, author of Hourglass

‘A magnificent, murderous grin of a novel: sharp-eyed and sharp-toothed in its modern appraisal of class (and sexual) tensions. Wittily, Reece shows us how hearts, houses and histories are claimed, and how many forms of capital are acquired by self-deception.’ – Tom Benn, author of Oxblood