Isabelle Dupuy
Writer
Isabelle Dupuy is a Haitian British writer. Her first novel Living the Dream, about the travails of a young immigrant family as they climb the social and economic ladder in London, was the Tesco section for Black History 2024. It was also selected by Netflix UK for their Black History Month event in 2024. Living the Dream was one of the 12 novels selected by the Cannes Film Festival 2025 for their Shoot the Book event. Isabelle was a trustee of the London Library from 2016 to 2024 and is a graduate of Yale and NYU.Isabelle is a regular contributor to the Writers Mosaic magazine where she writes reviews and essays.Isabelle is a Reading Round Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund. She's been published by Litro, The White Review, The New York Times, Boundless Magazine and others.She is currently working on her second novel.
Living The Dream
Isabelle Dupuy
Isabelle's first novel, Living the Dream can be found at all good booksellers or ordered directly from the publisher Jacaranda directly or on Amazon.Living the Dream follows a the travails of a young immigrant family as they climb the social and economic ladder in London. It was the Tesco selection for Black History 2024, and Living the dream was one of 12 novels selected by the Canes Film Festival 2025 for their Shoot the Book event.
Praise for Living The Dream
"A magnetic and affecting tale filled with both humour and pain, Living the Dream depicts the glamorous yet flawed lives of two immigraant women in pre- and post- Brexit London. This layered and captivating novel is at times loud funny and other times heartbreaking, yet we are constantly charmed by its narrator and her muse, or rather her muses, which include Colombia, Haiti, England, and beyond."
- Edwidge Danticat
author of Everything Inside, The Dew Breaker,
Brother, I'm dying, and Breath, Eyes, Memory
"Living the Dream is literary and commercial, LeCarre and Terry McMillan, thriller and sensual tale, with prose that'll stoke the body and the imagination. A page-turning primer on race and relationships that burns with plenty of steam."
- Kwame Alexander
New York Times bestselling author of
Booked, Rebound, and The Crossover
"An engaging and impressive debut from a new and welcome voice to the literary landscape"
- Yvvette Edwards
author of The Mother and A Cupboard Full of Coats
"It's great, funny, smart but with heart. Love it!"
- Daisy Goodwin
New York Times bestselling author of Silver River and
The Fortune Hunter and screenwriter
of the ITV television series Victoria
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