Their Angel Reach


A novel in five parts tracing the social connections between five women in the same northern village,  who battle against the odds with humour and creativity to retain a sense of identity and purpose.

Michael is rare in taking on the ethical gravity of evil, turning it over and over in her stony prose…What more can we ask for in our fiction writers than such honesty, such fierceness…

Natasha Walter,

Independent Books of the year.

Livi Michael has her own unique vision: she can see in the darkness.

Literary Review

Winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

Short-listed for the John Steinbeck Prize and the John Llewellyn Rhys Award.