Pixie is a captivating insight into the life of the most famous occult artist you've never heard of

PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Girl on the Train

In Pixie, Jill Dawson has deftly conjured back into life a woman who is shrouded in mystery and the occult. For too long Pamela Coleman Smith has remained an anecdote to England's rich history of magic, when indeed, via her life and drawings for the Ryder-Waite-Smith tarot deck, she played a central role . . . I not only rejoiced in this book, but welcome it as an important work of feminist reclamation . . . Pixie is a story that needed to be told. She is in good hands, here, and a work of magic has been done. It's thrilling to live with this book

MONIQUE ROFFEY, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch

About how difference and quirkiness should be celebrated. And how we should trust our instincts. And it's about how hard it is to be a woman artist

GEORGINA MOORE, author of The Garnett Girls

A rich and marvellous story, a delight

SADIE JONES, Costa First Novel Award-winning author of The Outcast

Jill Dawson is a truly bold and vigorous and immersive writer, a deep-diver into character and context alike. Pixie (Pamela) Colman Smith is a deliciously, irresistibly quicksilver creation, at once bumptious and insecure, brilliantly certain of her talent and determined to navigate a world that seems to offer no place for her. Dawson evokes a vividly fascinating milieu for her, conjuring up all the extraordinary characters – the shamans and poets, idealists and eccentrics and pushers at boundaries – who came into their own at the beginning of the twentieth century, the end of one era and the dawn of a new and uncertain one

CHRISTOBEL KENT, author of The Loving Husband

A funny, feminist bildungsroman, suffused with 1900s atmosphere and Sapphic steaminess that will see her scoop up any Sarah Waters fans who haven't already discovered her. I loved it

PATRICK GALE, author of Notes From an Exhibition