Laura Fish was born in London in 1964, of Caribbean parents. She has lived in Southern Africa and Australia, and has held posts as a Creative Writing tutor at various universities including the University of East Anglia, where she recently completed a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing. She holds the RCUK Academic Fellowship in Creative Writing at Newcastle University. Her first novel, Flight of Black Swans, was published in 1995.
A gifted writer, and her manipulation of language is her forte -
brilliant, sensuous and shocking
*Sunday Times*
Fish nimbly draws parallels between [her characters'] lives,
packing a powerful emotional punch in the process
*Tatler*
A powerful expression of post-colonial guilt
*Guardian*
A provocative contribution to revisionist (and feminist)
post-colonial fiction
*Times Literary Supplement*
Shaw is an accomplished storyteller, whose beautiful prose delivers
you right into the heart of the plantation
*Time Out*
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