Carol Birch is a British

British people

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 novelist and attended Keele University

Keele University

Keele University is a campus university near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. Founded in 1949 as an experimental college dedicated to a broad curriculum and interdisciplinary study, Keele is most notable for pioneering the dual honours degree in Britain...

. The author of eleven novels, she won the 1988 David Higham Award for the Best First Novel of the Year for Life in the Palace, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize is a British literary prize established in 1963 in tribute to Geoffrey Faber, founder and first Chairman publisher Faber & Faber...

 with The Fog Line in 1991, and she was long-listed for the 2003 ManBooker Prize for Turn Again Home. Her novel Jamrach's Menagerie was long-listed for the Orange Prize 2011 and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

Man Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and...

 2011. She currently lives in Lancaster

Lancaster, Lancashire

Lancaster is the county town of Lancashire, England. It is situated on the River Lune and has a population of 45,952. Lancaster is a constituent settlement of the wider City of Lancaster, local government district which has a population of 133,914 and encompasses several outlying towns, including...

 with her family.

Works

• Life in the Palace (1988)
• The Fog Line (1989)
• The Unmaking (1992)
• Songs of the West (1994)
• Little Sister (1998)
• Come Back, Paddy Riley (1999)
• Turn Again Home (2003)
• In a Certain Light (2004)
• The Naming of Eliza Quinn (2005)
• Scapegallows (2007): A novel based on the life of Margaret Catchpole
  Margaret Catchpole
  Margaret Catchpole , a British adventuress, chronicler and criminal, born in Suffolk she worked as a servant in various houses before being convicted of stealing a horse and later escaping from Ipswich Gaol. Following her capture she was transported to Australia...
  
  
• Jamrach's Menagerie
  Jamrach's Menagerie
  Jamrach's Menagerie is a 2011 novel by Carol Birch. The novel has been referred to as historical fiction, since it features certain real life characters, such as naturalist Charles Jamrach.The novel was short-listed for the 2011 Man Booker Prize.-Plot:...
  
  (2011)