Jennie Erdal  is the author of Ghosting, a memoir of her childhood in Lochgelly and of being the long-serving ghostwriter of  Naim Atallah, the publisher and owner of Quartet Books. She worked for him for 20 years, first as a translator of Russian novels, then as a commissioning editor and finally as unacknowledged ghostwriter. Ghosting was chosen as a BBC Book of the Week  and was shortlisted  for the Saltire Scoiety First Book Award and for the JR Ackerley Prize for Autobiography.

In 2012 The Missing Shade of Blue: A Philosophical Adventure, the first novel written under Erdal’s own name, was published by Little Brown.