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Jenn Ashworth


UK flag (b.1982)

Jenn Ashworth's first novel, A Kind of Intimacy, is published by Arcadia books. As well as writing she works in a prison library, collects cacti, tells lies, loses cats, fails to wash up and spies on the neighbours in Preston, Lancashire, where she has lived, on and off, since she was born.
 

Genres: General Fiction, Mystery
 
Novels
   A Kind of Intimacy (2009)
   Cold Light (2011)
   The Friday Gospels (2013)
   Fell (2016)
   Ghosted (2021)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Night Visitors (2017) (with Richard V Hirst)
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Series contributed to
Hometown Tales
   Hometown Tales: Lancashire (2018) (with Benjamin Webster)
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Jenn Ashworth recommends
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The Gospel of Orla (2023)
Eoghan Walls
"The Gospel of Orla is an astonishing feat of characterisation and storytelling. The prose is both earthy and sparkling and the story--equal parts bravado and vulnerability--is told with both wit and tenderness. Everyone should read this."
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The Perfect Golden Circle (2022)
Benjamin Myers
"A strange, magical extraordinary book. It's so atmospheric, so strange and affecting. I don't think I've ever read anything quite like it before, and I'm not sure how Myers has made it work, but he has - I was totally gripped by this."
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Here Again Now (2022)
Okechukwu Nzelu
"Hooked me from the very beginning. There's such a great respect and dignity at play in this writing - we're never allowed to forget that the painful blunderings of inexpertly loving can lead us, almost in spite of ourselves, to the place we are supposed to be."

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Anthologies containing stories by Jenn Ashworth
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Out of the Darkness (2021)
edited by
Dan Coxon

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Awards
Betty Trask Award Best First Novel nominee (2010) : A Kind of Intimacy


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