Writing career
Arnold's unpublished debut novel, Slip of a Fish, was awarded the inaugural Northern Book Prize in 2018. [5] The prize was set up by Sheffield publisher And Other Stories for unpublished book-length fiction or literary non-fiction by northern English writers or with a strong northern English connection. [5] Slip of a Fish was published by And Other Stories in the same year. Narrated in a stream of consciousness style by a vulnerable woman, Ash, it details her increasing withdrawal from reality. "Slip of a fish" is a phrase used by Ash to describe her daughter, Charlie, whom she takes swimming in a lake where swimming is prohibited. Stevie Davies, writing in The Guardian, described the novel as ambitious and remarkably original but noted that its ambiguity could leave the reader floundering. [6] In 2019, it was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. [7] [8]
Arnold's second novel, Lori & Joe, was published in 2023. [9] Again written in a stream-of-consciousness style, it follows Lori's thoughts after she finds husband Joe dead, revealing the history of their marriage as she takes a day-long walk in the hills. [10] [11] It gave Arnold her second shortlisting for the Goldsmiths Prize. [12] It was also shortlisted for the 2024 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. [13] [14]
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