Linda Grant

Linda Grant is the author of six novels and four works of non-fiction. Her second novel, When I Lived in Modern Times, won the Orange Prize for Fiction. The Clothes on Their Backs was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her family memoir, Remind Me Who I Am, Again, won the Mind Book of the Year and the Age Concern Book of the Year. She lives in London. Linda Grant’s copy of Jane Eyre is a navy blue hardback with the Latin motto of her school embossed in gold on the cover. It was awarded for winning the Rosa B Chambers prize for Reading Aloud, an accomplishment which finally found an application at literary festivals.