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Biography

Linda Grant is the author of six novels and four works
of non-fiction. Her second novel, When I Lived in Modern Times, won the Orange Prize for Fiction. The Clothes on
Their Backs was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her
family memoir, Remind Me Who I Am, Again, won the Mind
Book of the Year and the Age Concern Book of the Year. She
lives in London. Linda Grant’s copy of Jane Eyre is a navy
blue hardback with the Latin motto of her school embossed
in gold on the cover. It was awarded for winning the Rosa
B Chambers prize for Reading Aloud, an accomplishment
which finally found an application at literary festivals.

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