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FRANCES QUINN

FRANCES QUINN

Update: 2025-08-01
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We spend a joyful half hour talking to Frances Quinn about writing historical novels, finding out what a Titanorack is and discovering that Francis hides Abba song titles in her novels!


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Frances Quinn is the author of historical novels The Smallest Man, That Bonesetter Woman and The Lost Passenger.  She grew up in Forest Gate, East London and studied English at King’s College, Cambridge, then became a journalist and copywriter. She lives in Hove with her husband and three very spoilt Tonkinese cats.



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