Rebecca Wait has been writing for as long as she can remember and has won numerous prizes for short stories and plays. She wrote The View on the Way Down in the evenings whilst working as a teaching assistant. The Followers is her second novel. Rebecca lives in London.
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Novels
The View On the Way Down (2013)
The Followers (2015)
Our Fathers (2020)
I'm Sorry You Feel That Way (2022)
Havoc (2025)
The Followers (2015)
Our Fathers (2020)
I'm Sorry You Feel That Way (2022)
Havoc (2025)
Books containing stories by Rebecca Wait
Rebecca Wait recommends

Life Hacks For a Little Alien (2025)
Alice Franklin
"This is one of those rare books that is so brilliant, so original and lovely and funny, that it reminds you of the point of reading, and renews your faith in fiction. I adored it. I'm going to be recommending it to everyone I know, friends and enemies alike (even bad people should have good things). I laughed frequently while reading it, and was moved, and interested, and changed."

Pity Party (2024)
Daisy Buchanan
"Hilarious, moving and unexpected, PITY PARTY unfolded quite differently to how I was expecting. A lovely funny book."

How to Be Somebody Else (2024)
Miranda Pountney
"So sharp and well observed. I loved the wry, understated humour, and how perceptive the book is about female desire. In its exploration of a woman trying to make sense of herself it is moving without being sentimental, and clever without seeming to try too hard."
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