Margot Sullivan

Quiet, funny and devastating. Sullivan writes about starting over better than anyone I know.

Clara Voss, author of The Salt Year

A woman walks out of her marriage on a Tuesday in March with no plan and one suitcase.

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Meet Margot Sullivan

I spent twelve years as a book editor in New York before I admitted that the thing I actually wanted to do was write. That was 2016. I quit my job, moved to a rented farmhouse in the Hudson Valley, and wrote my first novel in six months of total panic.

Four books later, I'm still here. Still panicking, a little. I write about ordinary people making decisions they can't take back — the kind of choices that look small from the outside but rearrange everything.

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