An Orange Prize nominee; two-time MacAllan/Scotland on Sunday Prize nominee; multi-disciplined work for BBC Radio 4, Gutter, Notes from the Underground, The Guardian; two critically revered novels-Sophie Cooke's litany of brilliant work speaks for itself. Her skill is in exposing truth through political and societal hypocrisy-critic's comparisons with Thomas Vintenberg and Virginia Woolf are a mark of her success as a powerful social commentator.