Carol Birch

Carol Birch is the award-winning writer of twelve novels, including Jamrach's Menagerie , which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2011. Her first novel, Life in the Palace , won the David Higham Award for Fiction (Best First Novel of the Year), and her second novel, The Fog Line , won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Born in Manchester, she now lives in Lancaster.

Carol Birch is the award-winning writer of twelve novels, including Jamrach's Menagerie , which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2011. Her first novel, Life in the Palace , won the David Higham Award for Fiction (Best First Novel of the Year), and her second novel, The Fog Line , won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Born in Manchester, she now lives in Lancaster. See less