The novel won the 2017 Silver Inky Award for young adult literature. Oseman has often written about the importance of writing diversely on her blog, and has spoken about the lack of diversity in Solitaire in interviews. Radio Silence was named as one of Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Best Books of the Year in 2017. This novel has been praised for representing characters of various ethnicities, genders, and sexualities. According to Oseman, Frances' experience in Radio Silence is similar to her own school pressure and a later disillusionment with academia following her education at Durham University. Themes such as academic pressures and LGBT+ relationships and identities are central to the novel.

The novel follows Frances Janvier, a high-achiever whose life revolves around her admission to Cambridge, who meets the shy creator behind her favourite podcast, Aled Last. In 2016, Oseman published her second novel, Radio Silence. The novel explores themes such as friendship, mental health issues, eating disorders, and LGBT+ relationships. Other characters include Tori's brother Charlie, who has a severe eating disorder and is explored further in Oseman's webcomic Heartstopper. They attempt to find out who is behind a series of pranks at their school. It follows the story of Tori Spring, a pessimistic teenager, who meets Michael, her polar opposite and an unbelievable optimist. Oseman's debut novel Solitaire was published by HarperCollins in 2014 after a bidding war.

Oseman uses she/her and they/them pronouns. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from Durham University in 2016. Her novels focus on contemporary teenage life in the UK and have received the Inky Awards.Īlice Oseman was born to Jewish parents in Chatham, Kent and grew up in a village near Rochester, Kent with her younger brother, William, and attended Rochester Grammar School. She wrote and illustrated the webcomic Heartstopper, which has been published as multiple graphic novels and which she adapted into a TV series, earning her a BAFTA TV Award nomination and two Children's and Family Emmy Awards as both a writer and producer. Her novels include Radio Silence, I Was Born for This, and Loveless. She secured her first publishing deal at 17, and had her first novel Solitaire published in 2014. Alice May Oseman (born 16 October 1994) is an English author of young adult fiction.

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