Alice O’Keeffe

Alice O’Keeffe is a sub-editor at the arts and books desk of The Times and Sunday Times, where she also contributes regular book reviews and articles. Her journalism and criticism has previously appeared in The Guardian, The Observer and The New Statesman. She has published two novels. Her first, On the Up (2019), tells the warm and comic story of a young family trying to survive and thrive amid London’s housing crisis, and finding community in unexpected places. 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.