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    Jo Baker (novelist)

    British writer

    For other people with the same name, see Jo Baker (disambiguation).

    Jo Baker is a British writer. She is the author of six novels, including Longbourn. She has also written short stories for BBC Radio 4 and reviews for The Guardian and The New York Times Book Review. In , she was awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the Queen's University Belfast, and she is currently an Honorary Fellow at Lancaster University.

    Early life and education

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    Baker was born and grew up in the village of Arkholme, in Lancashire, England. She was educated at Queen Elizabeth School, Kirkby Lonsdale, and Somerville College, Oxford. She moved to Belfast in to study for an MA in Irish literature at Queen's University,[1] where she went on to complete a PhD on the Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen.

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    • Offcomer (). Baker's debut novel is set in Belfast in the wake of the Good Friday Agreement, and follows the life of Claire Tho
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      Jo Baker

      Jo Baker is a novelist who will be well known to Suffolk readers through books such as Longbourn and A Country Road, A Tree. Jo's latest book The Midnight News is set in London during the Blitz. You can find The Midnight News and the rest of Jo's books on our catalogue.

      Who were your influences as you were growing up and did you have books around you as a child?

      I grew up in an amazing time for children’s writing; looking back inom realise how lucky inom was to get my grubby little mitts on the work of Susan Cooper, Joan Aitken, Alan Garner and Rosemary Sutcliff in particular. There were always books at home, and inom was brought regularly to the Children’s Library in Lancaster as well as to the local bookshops to choose what inom wanted next. I was very lucky.

      I've read about your 3am writing sessions in your early days. Is your writing routine a bit more relaxed nowadays?

      Yes, thankfully. I’m not currently having to juggle a full-time job, small children a