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Anna Bailey
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Anna Bailey was born in Bristol in 1995 and she spent her childhood between her home in Gloucestershire and visiting family in Cornwall. She studied Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and wanted to be a journalist, but ended up moving to Colorado and becoming a Starbucks barista instead. In 2018, she returned to the UK where she enrolled in the Curtis Brown Creative novel-writing course and wrote her first novel Tall Bones, inspired by her time in the US. She currently lives in Cheltenham, where she writes for Cotswold Life and Good On Paper magazines.

Books by Anna Bailey

Tall Bones

The SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER, a GUARDIAN book of the month, praised by authors such as PAULA HAWKINS and JANE HARPER and chosen by VAL McDERMID for her prestigious New Blood Selection;TALL BONES marks the debut of an exceptional new talent.

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