Rachel Meller
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Rachel Meller

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Rachel Elizabeth Meller grew up near London, England, the middle daughter of Austrian Jewish refugees who escaped Hitler in the late 1930s. After studying Neurobiology at the University of Sussex and research into hormones and behaviour at Cambridge University, she became a medical writer in a Cambridge-based communication consultancy. She retired early to write her first book, The Box with the Sunflower Clasp, about her Viennese family’s escape from the Nazis to the unlikely haven of Shanghai. Published in May 2023, The Box with the Sunflower Clasp was shortlisted in June 2024 for the Royal Society of Literature’s Christopher Bland Prize. Although she did not win, Rachel is comforted to know that she’s in excellent company: Bonnie Garmus of Lessons in Chemistry fame was a runner-up in 2023. Rachel’s fascination for the mysteries of clairvoyance, ghosts and the workings of the brain has led her to embark on her second nonfiction book, on a quite different topic: three nineteenth-century women involved in the early years of the British Society for Psychical Research. Rachel is represented by Katie Fulford of the Bell Lomax Moreton Literary Agency.
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