Abby McDonald

Abby McDonald is a British novelist and screenwriter whose fiction spans contemporary comedy, drama for younger readers, and psychological suspense. The Liberation of Alice Love follows a careful London professional whose stolen identity leads her into an international pursuit and a reconsideration of the life she has constructed. Arrow published the novel in Britain in 2010, while Sourcebooks issued it for American readers. McDonald's earlier contemporary novel, The Popularity Rules, also used relationships and social expectations as engines for comedy. She later wrote books for younger readers including The Anti-Prom, Getting Over Garrett Delaney, and Jane Austen Goes to Hollywood. Under the name Abigail Haas, she moved into darker territory with Dangerous Girls and Dangerous Boys. Her screen work includes writing for Bridgerton, extending a career built around characters navigating reinvention, secrecy, and competing versions of themselves. The Liberation of Alice Love sits at the point where her comic storytelling and interest in unstable identity meet.