Araminta Hall
Araminta Hall has worked as a writer, journalist and teacher. Her first novel, Everything & Nothing, was published in 2011 and became a Richard & Judy read that year. Her second, Dot, was published in 2013.
She teaches creative writing at New Writing South in Brighton, where she lives with her husband and three children. She is the great niece of Dodie Smith and great granddaughter of Lawrence Beesley, who survived the Titanic and wrote a bestselling account of the tragedy in the book, The Loss of the SS Titanic.
Our Kind of Cruelty, was published by Penguin Random House in 2018. It is a deeply unsettling thriller of a love story, in which a secret game between lovers has deadly consequences. Her book Perfect Strangers, was published in August 2020 by Orion. The hardback and US edition (FSG) were published as Imperfect Women. Her novel, Hidden Depths, was published by Orion in March 2022.
Her newest novel, One of the Good Guys, was published by Macmillan in the UK in January 2024, and by Zando in the US.
For Film and TV, three of Araminta’s novels are currently under exclusive option with major entities, and Imperfect Women is currently shooting in Los Angeles for the Apple TV+ limited series with 20th Television and Apple Studios. Anne Weisman is attached to the project as adaptor, and the series will star Elisabeth Moss, Kate Mara and Kerry Washington. Additional cast includes Corey Stoll, Joel Kinnaman, Rome Flynn, Ana Ortiz, and Sherri Saum. Executive producers on the series will be Lindsey McManus and Weisman via Love & Squalor Pictures, Pilar Savone, Hall, Moss, Washington, Kay Oyegun, and Lesli Linka Glatter, who will also be directing the pilot episode.
Author photo (c) Sarah Ketelaars
