Press pack

Please find below links to bio, books, downloadable images, contact details and social media

Bio

Lucy Nichol (who also writes as Lucy Roth) is a 6x published author with a love of flawed characters and tales from the darker side of life. She has a passion for mental health awareness, music and nostalgia. Her full bibliography is below:

• Girls to the Front (upcoming) | October 2025 | Lark | Fiction
  • She’s with the band….she wants them dead
• When Sally Killed Harry | March 2025 | Avon/HarperCollins | Fiction
  • This is not a love story…it’s a rom com gone rogue
• No Worries if Not | August 2023 | HarperNorth/HarperCollins | Fiction
  • One little word. One bad habit. One year to stop saying sorry
• Snowflake | January 2023 | Welbeck/Hachette | Non Fiction
  • Breaking through mental health stereotypes and stigma
• Parklife | June 2022 | Lark | Fiction
  • Dumped, drunk and desperate for oblivion in 1996
• The Twenty Seven Club | January 2021 | Lark | Fiction
  • A darkly comic tale of friendship, hope and fandom (also adapted for the stage at Live Theatre, Newcastle)
• A Series of Unfortunate Stereotypes | March 2018 | Trigger | Non Fiction
  • Naming and shaming mental health stigmas

Outside of writing, Lucy has worked with a range of national mental health charities to support with media work and guidelines, consultancy and storytelling. These include Mind, Time to Change, Action on Postpartum Psychosis, Recovery Connections, St Andrew’s Healthcare, Student Minds and many more. As part of this work, she has advised on mental health portrayals on TV for soaps and dramas including Hollyoaks, EastEnders, Coronation Street, Casualty and many more.

Lucy also has lived experience of panic attacks/anxiety disorder.

Girls to the Front – Press release

Early praise for Girls to the Front:

“Propulsive, fierce and hugely satisfying, Girls to the Front is a feminist tour de force!” Lisa Timoney, author of The Daughter She Gave Away

“A dark, feminist thriller with a punk protagonist exacting her revenge like a real-life Martha Splatterhead.” Adem Tepedelen, Co-author of Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion

“Girls to the Front shines a powerful light on neglected aspects of an era so formative for those in my generation. It is Lucy Nichol’s most powerful work so far.” Guy Mankowski, author of bestselling Substack biography ‘I Know How to Live: The Life of Kristen Pfaff’

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