About this book
Before becoming a full-time writer, Avril Joy worked for twenty-five years in Low Newton women’s prison in County Durham. Her short fiction has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies including Victoria Hislop’s The Story: Love, Loss & the Lives of Women. Her work has been listed in the Bridport, the Manchester Prize for Fiction, the Fish Short Memoir and the Raymond Carver Prize. In 2012 her story, Millie and Bird, won the inaugural Costa Short Story Award. Her novel, Sometimes a River Song, won the 2017 People’s Book Prize for outstanding achievement. Her poetry has appeared both in print and online. In 2019, her poem Skomm won the York Literary Festival poetry competition. Avril lives with her partner near Bishop Auckland in County Durham.
