The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty is the new book by UEA alumna Elizabeth L Silver and is published by Penguin Press this week. Elizabeth graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2004. Since graduation she has been the recipient of several grants, including a residency at the Byrdcliffe Artist Colony in Woodstock, New York, and the British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) Workshop in Tarazona, Spain. Her debut novel The Execution of Noa P. Singleton was published in 2013 by Random House/Crown in the USA and Headline Review in the UK, among several other publishers around the world. She lives with her family in Los Angeles.