Rosie was born and grew up in Liverpool. She studied History at Cambridge before becoming a teacher. Her debut novel The Leviathan was an instant Sunday Times bestseller, going on to become one of the bestselling debut hardbacks of 2022, and was shortlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award, the HWA Debut Crown Award and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Fiction. Her second novel The Puzzle Wood is out in hardback, and publishes in paperback in 2025.
Rosie has appeared at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Aye Write, Granite Noir, Stony Words, BeaconLit and Bury St Edmunds Lit Fest. Her work has been featured on the BBC Open Book radio show and she was selected as one of the Observer’s ‘Ten Debut Novelists to watch’ in 2022.
SHE IS AWAKE
Norfolk, 1643. With civil war tearing England apart, reluctant soldier Thomas Treadwater is summoned home by his sister, who accuses a new servant of improper conduct with their widowed father.
As Catherine Symonds, newly appointed governess of Locksley Abbey, arrives in the foothills of the Black Mountains, where England bleeds into Wales, she feels apprehensive.
