Emily Barr is a British

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and

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. She debuted with the novel ''Backpack'' in 2001. In additional to travel fiction, she has also written

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s and a

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Career

Barr had been working as a journalist for ''

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'', before embarking on a year-long work trip around the world in the late 1990s, writing a column as she went. The journey inspired her first novel, ''Backpack'', published in 2001 by

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. The book won the

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New Talent Award in 2002. It was followed by ''Baggage'', ''Cuban Heels'' in 2003, and ''Atlantic Shift'' in 2004. In 2009, she published ''The Life You Want'', a sequel to ''Backpack''. In 2014, Barr released a

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, ''Blackout'', for the

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series. Her first

, ''The One Memory of Flora Banks'', was published by

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in 2016 and paperback in 2017. It has been translated into 26 languages and has sold over 50,000 copies. Her first horror novel, ''We Hear Voices'', was released in late 2020 only in the US under the

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Evie Green. Barr has taught

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at the

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and the Faber Academy, among others.

Private life

Barr has lived in France, and is now based in Falmouth,

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with her husband and their three children. She met her husband in China, while travelling around the world.

Bibliography

* ''Backpack'' (2001) * ''Baggage'' (2002) * ''Cuban Heels'' (2003; also known as ''Cuba'') * ''Atlantic Shift'' (2004; also known as ''Solo'') * ''Plan B'' (2006) * ''Out of My Depth'' (2007) * ''The Sisterhood'' (2008) * ''The Life You Want'' (2009) * ''The Perfect Lie'' (2010) * ''The First Wife'' (2011) * ''Stranded'' (2012) * ''The Sleeper'' (2013) * ''Blackout'' (2014) * ''The One Memory of Flora Banks'' (2016) * ''The Truth and Lies of Ella Black'' (2018) * ''The Girl Who Came Out of the Woods'' (2019) * ''We Hear Voices'' (2020; as Evie Green) * ''Things to Do Before the End of the World'' (2021) * ''Ghosted'' (2022)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Barr, Emily 1971 births Living people Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art British chick lit writers British women travel writers British women novelists British women columnists 21st-century British novelists 21st-century British women writers