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Jill Dawson


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Jill Dawson was born in 1962 in Durham and grew up in Yorkshire. She is a poet, editor and short-story writer. In 1992 she won the Eric Gregory Award for poetry. She has edited a book about women on the road for Headline. She lives in Hackney with her son.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction, Historical
 
Novels
   Trick of the Light (1996)
   Magpie (1998)
   Fred and Edie (2000)
   Wild Boy (2003)
   Watch Me Disappear (2006)
   The Great Lover (2009)
   Lucky Bunny (2011)
   The Tell-Tale Heart (2014)
   The Crime Writer (2016)
   The Language of Birds (2019)
   The Bewitching (2022)
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Collections
   Kiss and Part (2019) (with others)
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Anthologies edited
   School Tales (1990)
   The Virago Book of Wicked Verse (1992)
   The Virago Book of Love Letters (1994)
   Kisses On Paper (1995)
   Love Letters (1997)
   Wicked Verse (1997)
   Wild Ways (1998) (with Margo Daly)
   Matter: Issue No. 1 (2001)
   Gas and Air (2002) (with Margo Daly)
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Non fiction show
 
Jill Dawson recommends
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The Girl At the Border (2019)
Leslie Archer
"The Girl at the Border is a brave roller-coaster of a novel, crackling with life and surprises. I loved the complexity of the young woman at its center and the important themes of forgiveness and healing and how badly those qualities are needed in contemporary American culture. Leslie Archer is a born storyteller."

Awards
Whitbread Prize Best Novel nominee (2000) : Fred and Edie
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2001) : Fred and Edie
Women's Prize For Fiction Best Novel nominee (2001) : Fred and Edie
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2006) : Watch Me Disappear


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