Helen Harris

"Harris turns out to be a virtuoso when it comes to understanding family. I can't think of anyone better at describing just how irritating everyone can be. She even-handedly lets us see how her characters get on one another's nerves. The result is sympathetic, funny and truthful."

Kate Kellaway in The Observer

Helen Harris has published five novels and many short stories in a wide range of magazines and anthologies. Her latest novel 'The Brondesbury Tapestry' published in 2018 has been longlisted for the People's Book Prize and you can vote for it here: https://peoplesbookprize.com/winter-2018/the-brondesbury-tapestry/

Her first novel 'Playing Fields in Winter' won the Author's Club First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Betty Trask prize, her second 'Angel Cake' was serialized on BBC Radio Four. Jane Gardam praised 'Sylvia Garland's Broken Heart' as a"passionate yet perfectly controlled novel... beneath the surface a smouldering furnace...It is a book with depth and resonance and pace."