Nell Leyshon is a British novelist and playwright and is currently Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton. She is the author of four novels: Black Dirt (2004), shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia Region, Best First Book) and longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction; Devotion (2008); The Colour of Milk (2012), which won the Libro del Ano prize in Spain, the Prix de l’Union Intéralliée in France and was runner up for the Prix Femina; and Memoirs of a Dipper (2015). The Voice (2008) brings together two short stories, ‘The Voice’ and ‘F Sharp’.