![]() ![]() ![]() The antique shop was owned by the parents of art critic David Sylvester, with whom Mackay had her daughter Cecily. After leaving school, she began working in an office, before getting a job at an antique shop in Chancery Lane. Her writing career started with her winning a poetry competition in the Daily Mirror at the age of 16, while still at school. After the Second World War, her family moved to Hampstead, London, and eventually settled in Shoreham, Kent, from where she attended Tonbridge Grammar School. ![]() Mackay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1944. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1996 for The Orchard on Fire, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2003 for Heligoland. Shena Mackay FRSL (born 1944) is a Scottish novelist born in Edinburgh. Redhill Rococo (1986) Dunedin (1991) The Orchard on Fire (1995) Dancing on the Outskirts (2015)įawcett Society Book Prize Scottish Arts Council Book Award ![]()
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