 Her first novel, "26a", published in 2005, won the Orange Award for New Writers, the Betty Trask Award and the deciBel Writer of the Year award.Her third novel "Ordinary People" was shortlisted for the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction and won the 2019 South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature.Also a journalist, Evans has written for publications including "Marie Claire", "The Independent", "The Observer", "The Guardian", "The Daily Telegraph", the "Financial Times, Time, The New York Review of Books" and "Harper’s Bazaar".