Where Are the Snows (first published in 1991), The Ice People (1998) and The Flood (2004) have all dealt with the near or distant future. Her human beings are biological as well as social creatures partly because of the influence of science and in particular evolutionary biology on her thinking. She turns a satirical eye on contemporary society but is affectionate towards her characters and has an unironic sense of the beauty of the natural world. Gee writes in a broadly modernist tradition, in that her books have a strong overall sense of pattern and meaning, but her writing style is characterized by political and social awareness. The first book-length study of her work, Mine Özyurt Kılıç's Maggie Gee: Writing the Condition-of-England Novel, was published in 2013. Her seventh novel, The White Family, was shortlisted for the 2003 Orange Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. Gee has published 14 novels a collection of short stories, and a memoir. Gee lived in London with her husband, the writer and broadcaster Nicholas Rankin (author of Dead Man's Chest: Travels after Robert Louis Stevenson, Telegram from Guernica: The Extraordinary Life of George Steer, War Correspondent and Churchill's Wizards), and their daughter. Her teaching specialty is 20th- and 21st-century fiction. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL). She was one of the original Granta 20 Best of Young British Novelists. in The Self-Conscious Novel from Sterne to Vonnegut.

After university she worked in publishing for two years and then became a research assistant at Wolverhampton Polytechnic where she completed a Ph.D. She was educated at state schools, won a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford and did an MA in English literature and an MLitt on Surrealism in England. As a child, she lived in the Midlands before moving to Sussex. Gee was one of six women among the 20 writers on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list in 1983, which she recalls as 'a very good time for fiction.' She was the first female chair of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL), 2004–08. In 2012, she became a professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University. Maggie Mary Gee OBE FRSL (born 2 November 1948) is an English novelist. Granta Best of Young British Novelists (1983)

The White Family by Maggie Gee