Lucy Luck to join Conville & Walsh

Agent Lucy Luck will join Conville and Walsh on 1st November, departing Aitken Alexander Associates where she has been a senior literary agent since November 2014.

Luck will bring with her a list of prize-winning authors which includes Catherine O'Flynn, Colin Barrett, Kevin Barry, Sara Baume, Sara Taylor and Andrew Michael Hurley.

C&W's Clare Conville and agency m.d. Jake Smith-Bosanquet said they had known and admired Luck for over a decade. Smith-Bosanquet said: "Lucy's acceptance of our offer caps a very successful year for Conville & Walsh, which has also been a year of change. We believe Lucy brings to us, as well as to the wider Curtis Brown group, a brilliant and distinctive literary taste, balancing a passionate advocacy of her many successful writers with a restless desire to uncover and nurture the new."

Luck commented: "I have loved my time at Aitken Alexander Associates and am sad to leave wonderful colleagues and friends but I am looking forward to the next chapter, both for me and my authors, working with the brilliant team at C&W."

Luck's email address from 1st November will be lucy@convilleandwalsh.com.