Poppy Adams is a British television documentary director/producer and novelist. She has made films for the

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and

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. Her first novel, ''The Behaviour of Moths'', was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award in the 2008 Costa Book Awards. Adams attended the

Dragon School The Dragon School is a private school across two sites in Oxford, England. The Dragon Pre-Prep (children aged 4–7) and Prep School (children aged 8–13) are both co-educational schools. The Dragon Prep School was founded in 1877 as the Oxfo ...

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and received a degree in

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from

Durham University Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate university, collegiate public university, public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament (UK), Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by r ...

. She Adams lives in

. She is single with four children.

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Living people People educated at The Dragon School English television directors English television producers English women novelists 21st-century English novelists 21st-century English women writers Alumni of Hatfield College, Durham British women television producers British women television directors 1983 births {{England-tv-bio-stub