Carol Birch

Carol Birch was born in 1951 in Manchester and went to Keele University. The author of seven novels, she won the 1988 David Higham Award for the Best First Novel of the Year for Life in the Palace, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize with The Fog Line in 1991, and she was longlisted for the 2003 ManBooker Prize for Turn Again Home. She currently lives in Lancaster with her family.

Works

*"Life in the Palace" (1988)
*"The Fog Line" (1989)
*"The Unmaking" (1992)
*"Songs of the West" (1994)
*"Little Sister (novel)|Little Sister" (1998)
*"Come Back, Paddy Riley" (1999)
*"Turn Again Home" (2003)
*"In a Certain Light" (2004)
*"The Naming of Eliza Quinn" (2005)
*"Scapegallows" (2007)