Turn Again Home book. This was the second book I have read by Carol Birch and it was completely different from Jamrach's Menagerie, a Victorian pastiche

Turn Again Home book. Greyhound racing at Belle Vue, the buses. This was the second book I have read by Carol Birch and it was completely different from Jamrach's Menagerie, a Victorian pastiche. Turn Again Home is an extremely well written family saga that was long-listed for the 2003 Booker prize. This story of an extended family set between WWI and the 1970's portrays the historical changes that affect the family in both subtle and direct ways.

Turn Again Home book.

Technically speaking, Turn Again Home is Carol Birch's "breakout book". For those unfamiliar with book-trade jargon, the breakout book generally turns up 10 years or so into the career of the moderately successful novelist, when a publisher, conscious of diminishing returns, pronounces that fatal homily about the necessity of "reaching a wider public". Sadly, such endeavours usually end in tears

Carol Birch (born in Manchester, 1951) is an English novelist, lecturer and book critic. She also teaches creative writing. Birch's parents had met in a wartime armaments factory.

Carol Birch (born in Manchester, 1951) is an English novelist, lecturer and book critic. Her father, a metallurgist, also played trombone in a Manchester jazz band known as The Saints. She took English and American Studies at Keele University.

Carol Birch was born in 1951 in Manchester and went to Keele University.

By (author) Carol Birch. Carol Birch was born in 1951 in Manchester and went to Keele University. For her first novel, LIFE IN THE PALACE, she won the 1988 David Higham Award for the Best First Novel of the Year. In 1991 she won the prestigious Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize with THE FOG LINE. Close X. Learn about new offers and get more deals by joining our newsletter.

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Carol Birch was born in Manchester and attended Keele University

Carol Birch was born in Manchester and attended Keele University. The author of eleven novels, she won the 1988 David Higham Award for the Best First Novel of the Year for Life in the Palace, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize with The Fog Line in 1991, and she was long-listed for the 2003 Booker Prize for Turn Again Home. Her novel Jamrach's Menagerie was long-listed for the Orange Prize 2011.

Author Carol Birch. Orphans of the Carnival. Jaffy Brown is running along a street in London’s East End when he comes face to face with an escaped circus animal.