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Carol Birch

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January 01, 1951 in Manchester, The United Kingdom

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Literature & Fiction

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Carol Birch was born in Manchester and attended Keele University. 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 with The Fog Line in 1991, and she was long-listed for the 2003 Booker Prize for Turn Again Home. Her novel Jamrach's Menagerie was long-listed for the Orange Prize 2011. She currently lives in Lancaster with her family.

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Average rating: 3.48 · 1,728 ratings · 458 reviews · 18 distinct works

	Jamrach's Menagerie 3.49 avg rating — 1,612 ratings — published 2011 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Scapegallows 3.61 avg rating — 56 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Naming of Eliza Quinn 3.41 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Turn Again Home 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Unmaking 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1992	My rating:
	The Fog Line 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	Whole Story Handbook 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	LIFE IN THE PALACE 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1988 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Come Back Paddy Riley 1.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Who Says? 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1997	My rating:

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“It was the first smile of my life. Of course, that is a ridiculous thing to say; I had been smiled at often, the big man had smiled at me not a minute since. And yet I say: it was the first smile, because it was the first that ever went straight into me like a needle too thin to be seen.”
― Carol Birch, Jamrach's Menagerie

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