Millar, Ali
Entry updated 12 February 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1980- ) Scottish author, whose first book, The Last Days (2022), which is nonfiction, describes her upbringing as a Jehovah's Witness, and her apostasy (surprisingly late) as a married woman. She is of sf interest for her first novel, the Near Future Ava Anna Ada (2024), each of these palindromes beginning with the letter A. Britain is beset not only by exponential Climate Change but by an enormous overdue weather event. The protagonist of the tale, Ava, a part-time Sex worker, is obsessed by Anna, an older woman who has lost her daughter Ada; as their fractured story intensifies, so the world itself seem to close in on the coming Disaster. [JC]
Ali Millar
born Edinburgh, Scotland: 1980
works
- Ava Anna Ada (London: Orion/White Rabbit, 2024) [hb/]
nonfiction
- The Last Days: A Memoir of Faith, Desire and Freedom (London Ebury Press, 2022) [nonfiction: hb/]
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