Emily Barr

Emily Barr is a British travel writer and novelist, author of 12 novels for adults, starting with Backpack in 2001. She has also written three novels for young adults: The One Memory Of Flora Banks, The Truth and Lies of Ella Black and The Girl Who Came Out of the Woods, and a novella, Blackout for the Quick Reads series.

Emily Barr
Born10 October 1971
United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Alma materCourtauld Institute of Art
GenrePsychological thriller, Young adult fiction

Her first novel, Backpack won the WHSmith New Talent Award in 2002. The One Memory of Flora Banks was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize in 2018, and has been translated into 26 languages [1]

A former Guardian journalist, she has written travel columns for The Guardian and The Observer[2] and lives in Cornwall with her husband and children.[3]

Bibliography
  • Backpack (2001)
  • Baggage (2002)
  • Cuban Heels (2003) (also known as Cuba)
  • Atlantic Shift (2004) (also known as Solo)
  • Plan B (2005)
  • Out of My Depth (2007)
  • The Sisterhood (2008)
  • The Life You Want (2009)
  • The Perfect Lie (2010)
  • The First Wife (2011)
  • Stranded (2012)
  • The Sleeper (2013)
  • Blackout (2014)
  • The One Memory Of Flora Banks (Ebook 2016, Hardback, 2017)
  • The Truth and Lies of Ella Black (2018)
  • The Girl Who Came Out of the Woods (2019)
  • We Hear Voices (2020) (as Evie Green)

References
  1. [https://www.emilybarr.com/books/one-memory-flora-banks/
  2. Emily Barr biography Bookreporter.com, 2002
  3. "Emily Barr - Writer | Emily Barr is a novelist for adults and young adults. She is published by Penguin and Headline". www.emilybarr.com. Retrieved 12 December 2016.


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