Joanna Hines is a British author of fiction and non-fiction. She has published a number of acclaimed novels, including ''Improvising Carla'' which was dramatised for UK television. She studied at

Somerville College, Oxford Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. Among its alumnae have been Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Hodgkin, Ir ...

. She was a Royal Literary Fund fellow at St Mary's University. Her mother, Nancy Isobel Myers, was the first wife of writer

Lawrence Durrell Lawrence George Durrell (; 27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell. Born in India to British colonial pare ...

. She now publishes non-fiction under her maiden name, Joanna Hodgkin.

Works

Fiction

*''Dora's Room'' London : Coronet Books, 1993. , *''The Fifth Secret'' London : Hodder, 1995 *''Autumn of Strangers'' London : Hodder, 1997 *''Improvising Carla'' London : Simon & Schuster, 2000. , *''Surface Tension'' London : Simon & Schuster, 2002. , *''Angels of the Flood'' London : Simon & Schuster, 2004. , *''The Murder Bird'' New York : Pocket Books, 2007. , *''The Cornish Girl'' London : Hodder, 1994 *''The Puritan's Wife'' London : Hodder, 1996 *''The Lost Daughter'' London : Hodder, 1999

Non-fiction

(as Joanna Hodgkin) *''Amateurs in Eden'' London : Virago, 2012. , * '' Tell Me Who I Am'' London : Hodder 2013 co authored with Alex and Marcus Lewis. Tell Me Who I Am was released as a documentary for Netflix in 2019.

References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20070123070841/http://joannahines.co.uk/ Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British writers Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford {{UK-writer-stub