‘Remember the time
Before the wax hardened,
When each of us was like a seal.
Each of us carries the imprint
Of the friend met along the way.’
To My Friends, The Mirror Maker, Primo Levi
Miranda Gold is a writer-performer living in London. Miranda’s first novel, Starlings, published by Karnac in December 2016, reaches back through three generations to explore how the impact of untold stories about the Holocaust ricochets down the years. In The Tablet, Sue Gaisford described Starlings as “a strange, sad, original and rather brilliant first novel, illumined with flashes of glorious writing and profound insight.” Starlings was reprinted by Sphinx Books in 2019. In 2024, Miranda adapted Starlings for the stage, drawing out the novel's visceral experience of inherited memory through a hybrid of theatre, poetry, and oral storytelling. Following enthusiastic reviews at the Springboard Festival at The Criterion Theatre in Coventry, Miranda and director Jacob Wolstencroft are creating an immersive production including live music and videography. Their hope is that the play will ignite conversation across cultural and generational borders, fostering unity across divides.
Miranda Gold
Miranda’s second novel, A Small Dark Quiet published by Unbound in 2018 is a story of loss, migration and the search for belonging, described by Susanna Crossman in Litro as a story of “the banal, yet ruthless effects of war and trauma on the everyday.” Set in London in 1945, A Small Dark Quiet explores unresolved grief and intangible loss, illuminating how trauma, both preverbal and intergenerational, collapses the boundaries between past and present. An extract from A Small Dark Quiet was published in The Best Peace Fiction Anthology by the University of New Mexico Press in September 2021.
In February 2019, Miranda devised and led a creative writing course called I Am Not Who You Think I Am for members of Skylight, Crisis. You can find more information on this course here. From July 2019 to June 2023, Miranda co-facilitated workshops and offered one-to-ones to members of the wider community experiencing homelessness with the support of Cheerio Publishing.
A Small Dark Quiet Audiobook
The audiobook is now available on Audible. You can listen to an extract here, read by Miranda Gold.
PRAISE FOR A SMALL DARK QUIET
““Bold, challenging and beautifully written” ”
Photography of Miranda Gold by Yellow Belly.