Carol Birch

Carol Birch (born 1951) is an English novelist, lecturer and book critic. She also teaches creative writing. The author of twelve novels, Birch won the 1988 David Higham Award for the Best First Novel of the Year for Life in the Palace, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize with The Fog Line in 1991; Her novel Turn Again Home was on the long list for the 2003 Man Booker Prize. Her novel Jamrach's Menagerie was long-listed for the Orange Prize 2011,and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011, and an extract from it appeared in The New York Times. In 2014 Birch was awarded an honorary degree of D.Litt. by Lancaster University