Ramshackle, a novel, published April 2012, Freight Books. Ramshackle was Shortlisted for the 2012 Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year Award and for the 2013 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Best First Book of the Year Award and was also long-listed for the 2013 Authors’ Club Best First Book Award.
“Ramshackle” deserves a place in the bestseller charts: a novel that deals with the primal fear of abandonment and portrays it through a vividly realised 15-year-old girl we can;t help but identify with.| April 22nd 2012, Alastair Mabbott, The Herald
“Ramshackle is not an easy novel to read – it is painful, intense and full of human anguish. But it is nevertheless a gem of a debut, and one which should earn Reeder some well-earned acclaim.” May 20, 2012, Fiona Atherton, Scotland on Sunday
 | Elizabeth ReederElizabeth Reeder, originally from Chicago, lives in Scotland and is the author of two critically acclaimed novels: Ramshackle and Fremont. Her short stories, dramas and abridgements have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4, and her stories, poems and essays are widely published and often explore questions of identity, made families and communities, diversity, ambiguity, and memory. A chapbook of her hybrid/lyric essays, one year, was published in May 2016 by The Essay Press: http://www.essaypress.org/ep-66/ (it’s lovely, digital and free!). She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow and is co-convenor of that program. She is a member of the PEN International Women’s Day Committee. She has a slow-time website at ekreeder.com and is on twitter as @ekreeder. |
