About Eleanor
Novelist first. Teacher for 15 years.
I know what it takes to get a novel finished, because I've done it twice. That's the experience I bring to every writer I work with.
Reviewed and featured in
Praised by novelists Kate Hamer, Rachel Hore, Megan Bradbury, Nick Bradley and Rachel Edwards
A richly atmospheric gothic debut
The Irish Times on Foxlowe
“I know what agents and publishers are looking for. I can’t promise you a book deal, nobody honestly can, but I’m very well connected in the publishing world, and I’ll make sure your novel is ready before it goes out.”
Eleanor Wasserberg, published by Fourth Estate and Penguin
Praise for Eleanor Wasserberg
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Will lure you in, then cut to the kill
The Guardian
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Mesmerising. It completely sweeps you up from beginning to end.
Kate Hamer author of The Doll Funeral
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Gorgeous and seductive… I was completely gripped
Flynn Berry author of Under the Harrow
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A richly atmospheric gothic debut
The Irish Times
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Wasserberg is a natural storyteller with hypnotic descriptive powers
Megan Bradbury author of Everyone is Watching
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Psychologically acute and emotionally absorbing
Rachel Hore author of Last Letter Home
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A masterpiece of storytelling
Nick Bradley author of The Cat and the City
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Haunting, magnificent and deeply personal
Rachel Edwards author of Darling
Fourth Estate Penguin
About the author
Eleanor Wasserberg is the author of two novels. Her debut, Foxlowe, the story of a girl raised in a cult on the moors, was published by Fourth Estate, the literary fiction imprint of HarperCollins, in 2016, and by Penguin in the United States, and was reviewed in The Guardian, The Irish Times and Vox.
Her second novel, The Light at the End of the Day, also published by Fourth Estate, follows a Polish Jewish family scattered by the Second World War.
She read English and Classics at Oxford and holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She has appeared in conversation with the writers Kim Sherwood and Dan Richards. Her work has been featured in the UK, Ireland, the United States and Australia.
She teaches creative writing in Stroud and mentors novelists across the UK and beyond.
The road to publication
She has walked the road you want to walk.
Getting a novel published is a world with its own rules: what editors look for, how a manuscript changes once a publisher takes it on, what has to happen before a book reaches the shelves. Eleanor has been through it twice, with one of the most respected fiction publishers in the country.
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Oxford
English and Classics
A degree in how the great stories are built.
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University of East Anglia
MA in Creative Writing
The UK's best known writing course, where many of the country's novelists started.
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2016
Foxlowe, published by Fourth Estate
The literary fiction imprint of HarperCollins took on her debut, in hardback, paperback, ebook and audiobook.
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United States
Published by Penguin
Foxlowe crossed the Atlantic, and was reviewed in the UK, Ireland, the US and Australia.
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Second novel
The Light at the End of the Day
Published by Fourth Estate again: a publisher coming back for a writer's next book.
What that means for your novel
- She knows what an editor looks for on the first page, and why most submissions are put down.
- She has been edited by a major publisher, so she knows the changes a book goes through before it is ready.
- She knows how the industry works, from the submission letter to the launch, and can show you the way in.
Absorbing, informative, friendly. Eleanor is an approachable, enthusiastic and expert tutor.
Jonathan PreeceAward winning screenwriter, Write Your Novel course