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


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Alligator and Other Stories (2020)
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"Alligator and Other Stories is heartfelt, heartbreaking and heart-mending. It's also razor sharp on the shifting layers of history, family, faith, gender, culture and language that make up that strange thing we call 'identity.' An important, necessary book."
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Sandlands (2016)
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