![]() She turns a satirical eye on contemporary society but is affectionate towards her characters and has an unironised sense of the beauty of the natural world. ![]() She writes in a broadly modernist tradition, in that her books have a strong overall sense of pattern and meaning, but her writing is characterised by political and social awareness. Her seventh novel, The White Family, was shortlisted for the 2003 Orange Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She has also served on the Society of Authors' management committee and the government's Public Lending Right committee. She is now one of the Vice-Presidents of the RSL and Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. ![]() She has written eleven novels and a collection of short stories, and was the first female Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, 2004-2008. She later worked in publishing and then had a research post at Wolverhampton Polytechnic where she completed the department's first PhD. She was educated at state schools and at Oxford University (MA, B Litt). ![]() She was born in Poole, Dorset, then moved to the Midlands and later to Sussex. ![]()
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