Xenobe Purvis is a British-based writer who was born in Tokyo. She’s studied at the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway. Purvis was part of the London Library’s Emerging Writers Programme. Her debut novel The Hounding, is billed as The Crucible meets The Virgin Suicides as it follows five sisters in a small village in eighteenth-century England whose neighbors are convinced they’re turning into dogs.
We asked the writer to answer our recurring My Reading Life Q&A so readers could get to know the books that influenced her life and inspired her debut book.
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