Helen Walsh

Helen Walsh is an English novelist, screenwriter and film director from Warrington. She moved to Barcelona at 16 and returned to England in her early twenties. Her first novel, Brass (2004), drew on her own experiences and received a Betty Trask Award in 2005. Once Upon a Time in England (2008) won a Somerset Maugham Award, and was followed by Go to Sleep (2011) and The Lemon Grove (2014). She directed the feature films The Violators (2016) and On the Sea (2025), and her television thriller The Gathering was broadcast on Channel 4 in 2024.

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