Novels
The Glass House
A story about a girl growing up in highland Perthshire.
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Published by Random House (2004)
Shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year Award
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"An exceptional first novel. Cooke is a writer with a great deal of power...she has produced a book full of arresting moments, haunting emotions and, through the dark clouds, slivers of beauty and hope. " - Glasgow Herald
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"Compelling is word used too frequently, but in the case of The Glass House, deservedly so...Bleak but beautiful, Sophie Cooke's debut novel is as crip and refreshing as a dip in a Scottish loch, and just as murky." - Ink
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"A poetic, honest and moving account...Cooke's debut is a memorable entry into a well-established genre." - Scotsman
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"A compelling portrait of a seemingly well-heeled family's gradual descent into chaos, rendered all the more shocking by its troubled heroine's detached, dispassionate, self-deluded narration." - The List
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Under The Mountain
A disastrous event upsets the relationships between family members.
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Published by Random House (2008).
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"It is Cooke's dual ability to pick apart beautifully the daytime details of cosy family life while also exploring much loftier themes of God, truth, memory and love that set her aside as a mature, intensely emotional and intelligent writer" - Sunday Times
"This is a complex, clever novel which on the whole succeeds in its high ambitions" - Time Out
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"Sublime writing… Cooke is excellent on unspoken family tensions and her characters' psychological motivations always ring true with a density that recalls Virginia Woolf. Of the younger generation of Scottish writers being published now, Cooke is one of the best."- Scottish Review of Books
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Dragana
My third novel, set in the former Yugoslavia and in modern-day Serbia, is now complete, and I'm working on my fourth novel.
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YA Fiction: The Nuckel Horse
My first novel for younger readers was completed with the help of funding from Creative Scotland, and is currently out on submission.
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