Alice O’Keeffe

Alice O’Keeffe is a writer, editor, and journalist whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The Observer, The New Statesman and The Times She has published two novels. Her first, On the Up (2019), tells the story of a young woman desperately fighting to keep her building from being bought out, and amidst this her attempt to build a sense of community with her neighbours despite their differences. In Skylark (2021), Alice explores the scandals of the undercover police officers who infiltrated the UK in 2010. We’re used to spy heroes and honeytraps. Skylark turns the genre on its head: in this story our hero is not the spy, but the person being spied on.