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Fionna Barr
I am qualified to write this book because it is based on autobiographical detail which is, naturally, familiar to me. I have qualifications in creative writing and I have done a lot of research for...view moreI am qualified to write this book because it is based on autobiographical detail which is, naturally, familiar to me. I have qualifications in creative writing and I have done a lot of research for this novel in the fields of dementia, Down Syndrome, and why parents want to harm their children.
Biography of Fionna Barr
Fionna was born on the first of April 1947. She is a Dutch national who has lived in England since 1968. She is a retired language teacher and now works for Oxfam as a volunteer.
Fionna is married to a man she first fell in love with in 1968 at the age of 21 while in his employ. She left after one year and had no contact with him for 37 years. They met up again in 2006 and were married three months later when she was 58. She has brought up nine children.
Fionna speaks Dutch, English, French, German and Russian, but is most fluent in Dutch and English. Her hobbies are walking, dog breeding and amateur dramatics.
Fionna has written this novel to come to a better understanding of the motives of parents wanting to harm their children and the effect this trauma has on the lives of all involved.
Fionna is a published author, having won six prizes with short stories in various competitions in the last two years (Woman & Home runner-up for the Costa Award, WritersDesk 2nd prize, StoryFeedback.com 2nd prize, StoryFeedback.com 2nd prize, Dark Tales 3rd prize, WritersDesk 1st prize.)
She has recently passed her MA in Creative writing and Authorship with merit at the University of Sussex. Her dissertation was based on a section of her novel The Darkness Within.
Her next novel is about volunteers in a charity shop and the stories behind the second-hand garments they prepare for sale in the shop. She is also putting together a collection of short stories for publication.
I live in East Sussex/ England with my husband and four terriers. We live right out into the country and spend our time walking, gardening and, in my case, writing. We have seven grown-up children between us and nine grandchildren.view less