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Ruth Valentine

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Born

The United Kingdom

Genre

Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction

Influences

Virginia Woolf, Czeslaw Milosz, Ken Smith

Member Since

January 2014

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I was born in Sussex at the end of WW2, the child of a British woman and a Canadian Airforce officer, who was soon posted back home. I was adopted aged 2 weeks by two elderly women. My interest in adoption and in absent parents comes from my childhood; it's there in my new novel, The Jeweller's Skin, and in the essay about the origins of the novel in London, City of Disappearances.
I came to London to university at 18, and have stayed here since, bar a year's voluntary service in Senegal and an MA at Essex. I've worked in Citizens Advice and with refugees and asylum seekers, and as a consultant to various charities. Currently I earn my living conducting secular funerals.
I always wanted to write, but didn't allow myself to take it seriously t ...more

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Average rating: 4.41 · 22 ratings · 4 reviews · 13 distinct works

	The Jeweller's Skin really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Downpour it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Asylum, hospital, haven: A history of Horton Hospital it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1996	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ellipsis 1: "The Announced" AND "The Tiny Key" AND "Mostly Indoors" by Ruth Valentine (Goodreads Author), Bethan Stevens (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Saltmarsh liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tide Table 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Talking About the Welfare State 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If You Want Thunder 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Self Help in the News 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The identification of species 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars