Joanna Traynor

Joanna Traynor

Joanna Traynor is the author of "Sister Josephine", "Divine" and "Bitch Money", all published by Bloomsbury, and an educational television producer/writer.

Joanna was born in London but raised in foster care in Chester. She is of mixed race - her mother was Irish and her father Nigerian.

Her first novel, "Sister Josephine", won the SAGA Prize in 1996 [ [http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=41205 News article on SAGA prize] ] . Joanna described the novel as: "..a semi-autobiographical thriller about a nurse and her experience of hospital life in Liverpool, with flashbacks to the emotional and sexual abuse she underwent in a northern white, working class foster family. I used my own childhood as a canvas and painted things on it."

Bibliography

Novels

*"Sister Josephine"
*"Divine"
*"Bitch Money"

References


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