Jane Harris

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born

January 01, 1961 in Belfast, Ireland

gender

female

website

http://www.janeharris.com/

genre

Historical Fiction, Literature & Fiction

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Jane Harris was born in Belfast, Ireland and raised in Glasgow. Her short stories have appeared in a wide variety of anthologies and magazines, and she has written several award-winning short films. In 2000, she received a Writer's Award from the Arts Council of England.

She started writing by accident while living in Portugal in the early Nineties. She says, "I had no TV, hardly any books, no money. And so, just to amuse myself, I started writing a short story. It was about an ex-boyfriend who happened to be a transvestite. I had such a great time writing that story that I immediately wrote another one, about another ex-boyfriend; all my early stories were about ex-boyfriends. I kept writing these stories and they were getting published in...more

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Books by Jane Harris

Average rating: 3.64 · 2,278 ratings · 460 reviews · 2 distinct works

	The Observations 3.57 avg rating — 1,811 ratings — published 2006 — 23 editions	My rating:
	Gillespie and I 3.92 avg rating — 471 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	My rating:

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Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran

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The Next Always by Nora Roberts

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Gillespie and I by Jane Harris

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The Goodbye Quilt by Susan Wiggs

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