Abigail Abbas

Abigail Abbas began her career in financial PR. She left the City to raise her children and worked as an illustrator, later embarking on an MA in Illustration at Camberwell College of Art. 

Forthcoming novel:

THE DRIVING SEAT (Polygon Press, Spring 2026)

Set in London and the Scottish Highlands, The Driving Seat is a literary domestic thriller, full of blistering black humour, compulsive plotting and an electrifying final showdown

"This is the funniest, the wildest, most life-affirming submission I've read in a long, long time," said Polygon’s senior editor, Alison Rae. "It's bursting with energy and humour and intriguing characters, a bit like a mashup of a Coen Brothers movie, Ali Smith and Nicola Barker. Very filmic, very compassionate and with pitch-perfect comic timing and emotional intelligence."