Josie Barnard is the author of five acclaimed Virago books, ranging from the novel Poker Face, which won the Betty Trask Award and was made into a Film Four short, to her work of creative non-fiction, The Book of Friendship. She has worked as an editor, including for Jonathan Cape, and as a journalist, writing features and reviews for newspapers and magazines including the Guardian, the Telegraph and the TLS.
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