Beth Underdown

Lecturer in Creative Writing (Fiction)

Beth Underdown was born in Rochdale in 1987. Her debut novel, The Witchfinder's Sister, based on the witch-hunts orchestrated by Matthew Hopkins in seventeenth-century Essex, was published in 2017, won the HWA Goldsboro Debut Crown and was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick. Her second novel, The Key in the Lock, was published in 2022.

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Beth's fiction

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  The Witchfinder's Sister

  Beth Underdown’s debut novel was published in 2017.

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  They Key in the Lock

  Beth Underdown’s second novel was published in 2022.