Career
Born in England to an Irish mother, she lived in London and in Dublin, Ireland until moving to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1999. The novel was also a shortlisted nominee for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. and a Barnes & Noble 2012 Discover Great New Writers pick. Martin John, her Giller Prize shortlisted second novel, was published in North America in Fall 2015 to wide critical acclaim including Editors" Choice in the New York Times.
The New York Times described the novel as "Deploying some serious literary gumption, Schofield’s frequently hilarious, and distinctly modernist, linguistic games are always gainfully employed in the uneasy, indelicate task of placing her reader nose to nose with the humanity of a sex offender — and a sex offender’s mother." In the United Kingdom and Ireland, Australia, India, South Africa it was published in February 2016.
Eileen Battersby hailed the novel in The Irish Times comparing it to Nabokov"s Lolita and describing it as "a comic tour de force sustained by theatrical energy as well as linguistic and tonal cohesion. Schofield has also been a literary critic, essayist and broadcaster, contributing to the London Review of Books Blog, The Globe and Mail, Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio, The Guardian, The Irish Times and the Vancouver Sun.
