Alice Murphy (Pyle) is, by day, an award-winning head of marketing and publicity at HarperCollins’ Manchester-based imprint HarperNorth, and is co-director of Love Stories Etc literary festival. She is a Curtis Brown Creative alumnus and a qualified journalist who began her career as a news reporter. 100 MINUTES MORE is her debut novel and was longlisted for the BPA Pitch Prize in 2024. She lives in Manchester with her husband and daughter.