Bea Fitzgerald

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Bea Fitzgerald
Born (1996-08-19) 19 August 1996 (age 29)
Alma materUniversity of Reading
Years active2018–present
Websitewww.beafitzgerald.com

Bea Fitzgerald (born 19 August 1996) is an English novelist. Her debut young adult (YA) novel Girl, Goddess, Queen (2023) became a Sunday Times bestseller and received a Romantic Novel Award among other accolades.

Early life

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Fitzgerald is from Maldon, Essex.[1][2] She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English literature from the University of Reading in 2017.[3]

Career

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After graduating from university, Fitzgerald landed a marketing job at Scholastic.[3] Fitzgerald then worked as an assistant editor for Hodder & Stoughton. In 2022, she joined the Blair Partnership as a digital agent.[4]

In 2022, Fitzgerald signed her first three-book deal with Penguin and Puffin Books,[5] through which she published her debut novel Girl, Goddess, Queen in 2023. The novel is a young adult (YA) retelling of the Greek myth of Hades and Persephone.[6][7] Girl, Goddess, Queen became a Sunday Times bestseller,[8] won a Romantic Novel Award in the Fantasy category,[9] and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Older Fiction,[10] the YA Book Prize[11] and a Books Are My Bag Readers' Award.[12]

The second and third retellings in the book deal titled The End Crowns All, a sapphic reimagining of the Trojan war,[13][14] and A Beautiful Evil, based on the myth of Pandora, followed in 2024 and 2025 respectively. Also in 2024 via a two-book deal with Penguin Michael Joseph (PMJ),[15] Fitzgerald published her first adult thriller novel Then Things Went Dark.[16]

Personal life

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Fitzgerald is neurodivergent and identifies as both bisexual and asexual.

She grew up in Essex and attended Chelmsford County High School for Girls. She now lives in East London [17][18][non-primary source needed][19][non-primary source needed]

Bibliography

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Young adult

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  • Girl, Goddess, Queen (2023)
  • The End Crowns All (2024)
  • A Beautiful Evil (2025)

Adult

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  • Then Things Went Dark (2024)

Accolades

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Year Award Category Title Result Ref.
2023 Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards Young Adult Fiction Girl, Goddess, Queen Shortlisted [12]
2024 Waterstones Children's Book Prize Older Fiction Shortlisted [10]
Romantic Novel Awards Fantasy Won [9]
YA Book Prize Shortlisted [11]
2025 The End Crowns All Shortlisted

References

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