Nancy Tucker, 27, is a British author whose memoir of her childhood struggle with anorexia, The Time in Between, was published in 2015, and received praise from The Guardian and The Times.

It's her recent signing that has the literature world talking, with her debut fiction novel, The First Day of Spring, released in June, gaining rave reviews from media outlets including The New York Times. Tucker, who graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Experimental Psychology, currently works in an NHS mental health unit, specialising in young women's mental health.