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Sheena Joughin

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Sheena Joughin has twice been the winner of the London Short Story Competition, and is a regular contributor to The Times Literary Supplement. She lives in West London and is the author of two novels, Things to Do Indoors and Swimming Underwater.

Books by Sheena Joughin

Mad Women

An exhilarating and moving blend of memoir and literary biography that explores the work of six female novelists (including Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sylvia Plath, Antonia White and Janet Frame) who understood what it is to experience periods of madness and the extraordinary creativity that can spark from it

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Swimming Underwater

Poetry and love blend in Joughin's tragi-comic novel set in contemporary London and 1960s Norfolk about a young girl's obsession with a man she can never have.

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Things To Do Indoors

A witty and observant literary novel about two bohemian sisters who fall in love with the same man, set in 1980s West London.

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