[2] She studied literature in Edinburgh before completing an MA in creative writing at Manchester.
A Welsh language adaptation by Siân Northey was published at the same time as the English original, making it the first fiction novel to be simultaneously published in English and Welsh.
[3] At the 2017 Wales Book of the Year Awards, the English-language version of Pigeon won the overall prize for Wales Book of the Year, as well as the Wales Arts Review People's Choice Award and the Rhys Davies Trust Fiction Award.
[4] It was also shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize[5] and longlisted for the Author's Choice First Novel Award.
In 2018, Conran's second novel Dignity was picked up by Weidenfeld & Nicolson,[6] and published in April 2019.