[9] However, an extract from this lost novel was the winner of the 2003 Quiller-Couch Prize for Creative Writing at Cambridge University.

Her first novel A Kind of Intimacy, was developed during her time studying creative writing at Manchester University and was published in February 2009 by Arcadia.

[10] It tells the story of Annie, a lonely woman failing to come to grips with reality, unable to relate to others and full of self-deception.

[13] Ashworth's 2011 novel Cold Light aims, according to her own account, to be "dark and funny and odd".

The novel is set on the tenth anniversary of the death, when a memorial summerhouse is built and another body is found.

"[16] Published by Goldsmiths Press, November 2019, it has been described as a "genre-bending memoir and a cultural study of traumatized and sickened selves in fiction and film.