Anna Ralph
Anna Ralph, who now writes as Anna Barker, is a novelist and the daughter of the novelist Pat Barker. Before publishing fiction she worked as a journalist, in public relations and as a copywriter. Her first novel, The Floating Island, inspired by the floating island on Derwentwater, received a Betty Trask Award in 2008. Later books are the novels Before I Knew Him (2009) and Rain Hare and a poetry collection, Book of Crow. She lives in Durham. Dipped in Ink, a memoir centred on her mother’s family history, is due in 2027.
Works
- The Floating Island (2008)
Prizes
- The Floating Island — Betty Trask Prize and Awards 2008: Awards