Francesca was born in London in 1980. Brought up between the UK and America, she studied at Oxford and Harvard universities before becoming a writer. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Guardian, and The Jewish Chronicle, amongst others. She has been a features writer at Tatler, and for three years wrote the Debut Fiction column in The Observer.
Awards: Costa (2012) see all
Genres: General Fiction, Literary Fiction
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