Debi Alper

Debi has written four novels. Her first, Nirvana Bites, was described by The Big Issue as: “A quick-paced and witty trawl through London’s sub-cultures.” Her second novel, like Nirvana Bites, “is set in the downtrodden areas of South London she knows well, areas of desolate high rise housing and vibrant street markets.” She has worked as a finance officer, a photographer, farm labourer, life model and wig maker over the years but it was after her children were born that she wrote her first novel, “in the evenings in long hand lying on the settee and then typed it up in chunks using borrowed laptops.”

Debi’s novels are about the grim lives of desperate people told with love and humour. She lives in London.