Jill Dawson is the author of five critically acclaimed novels: Trick of the Light, Magpie, Fred & Edie (short-listed for the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Novel of the Year) Wild Boy, and Watch Me Disappear and is currently working on her sixth, The Great Lover.  All are published by Sceptre.  In addition Jill has contributed short stories, poetry and journalism to many publications  from The Guardian to The Times and has edited five anthologies of short stories and poetry,  the latest being Wild Ways: Stories of Women on the Road and Gas & Air: Tales of Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond, co-edited with Margo Daly.  She lives in the Cambridgeshire Fens in the UK, where for four years she held various fellowships at the UK’s most famous MA course in Writing, at the University of East Anglia. 

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