She was educated at
Dr Challoner's High School and went on to read classics at
St Hugh's College, Oxford. Her first novel,
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden, was published by
Penguin Books in April 2009. It was shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize and the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Laura Wilson, writing for
The Guardian, called it "an eerily subtle literary page-turner" that doesn't contain anything "remotely winsome or mawkish".
The Independent's Barry Forshaw praised the books ability to shift perceptions from the teenager protagonist's pursuit of mystical answers to adult's skepticism. Grant states that the book was inspired by the legends of the German town in which she spent time while growing up. The book has also been published in Germany as
Die Mädchen des Todes, and has been published in Spain, Holland and the US. Her latest novels are
Ghost (2018),
Too Near The Dead (2021) and
Jump Cut (2023), the last of which is about a notorious lost movie, The Simulacrum. The Independent described
Jump Cut as "a chilling, highly atmospheric tale." Her short fiction and non fiction have been published in
Supernatural Tales,
All Hallows, Nightmare Abbey and various anthologies including Titan's recent
In These Hallowed Halls. She has also provided a new translation of
E.T.A. Hoffmann's "
The Abandoned House" in
The Sandman & Other Night Pieces (
Tartarus Press). Her book of uncanny short stories,
The Sea Change & Other Stories, was published by
Swan River Press in 2013. ==References==