Light Across the Plains

Sharon Duggal is the author of the novels The Handsworth Times, Should We Fall Behind and Light Across the Plains. Her work has been shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award, selected for BBC TV's book show, Between the Covers, chosen as a Prima Magazine Book of the Year and as the Morning Star’s Fiction Book of the Year. She is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow and leads postgraduate Creative Writing at West Dean College, She was born in Birmingham and now lives in Brighton.

"Light Across the Plains is a tale of boundaries and borders, frontiers and walls, and the necessity of crossing them, if not breaking them down. Duggal shows her storytelling ability in a book which holds its reveals until the final few pages: like all great plots, it is both inevitable and utterly unexpected."- CD Rose, 2025 Goldsmiths Prize winner