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Emily Barr

Born

October 10, 1971

Website

http://www.emilybarr.com/

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Young Adult, Thriller

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Emily Barr worked as a journalist in London, but always hankered after a quiet room and a book to write. She went travelling for a year, writing a column in the Guardian about it as she went, and it was there that she had an idea for a novel set in the world of backpackers in Asia. This became Backpack, which won the WH Smith New Talent Award. She has since written eleven more adult novels published in the UK and around the world, and a novella, Blackout, for the Quick Reads series. Her twelfth novel, The Sleeper, is a psychological thriller set on the London to Cornwall sleeper train.
In 2013 she went to Svalbard with the idea of setting a thriller in the Arctic. The book that came out of it was The One Memory of Flora Banks, a thriller fo ...more

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Emily Barr's Blog

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Read me a story

My earliest memory is of my mother reading me a book. She was heavily pregnant, and I was leaning on her bump listening, when the baby kicked me. That was the first time I interacted with Adam, who is now a London DJ and who has, since that first kick, been a constant in my life.

Being read a story is comforting beyond anything. These days I read to my two younger children before they go to bed, ev

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Emily Barr’s books

Average rating: 3.55 · 54,153 ratings · 5,810 reviews · 42 distinct works • Similar authors

	The One Memory of Flora Banks 3.42 avg rating — 19,519 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sleeper 3.76 avg rating — 3,570 ratings — published 2013 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Backpack 3.56 avg rating — 1,859 ratings — published 2001 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Truth and Lies of Ella Black 3.04 avg rating — 2,110 ratings — published 2018 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl Who Came Out of the Woods 3.79 avg rating — 1,328 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This summer's secrets 3.70 avg rating — 1,315 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghosted 3.85 avg rating — 1,158 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stranded 3.85 avg rating — 1,110 ratings — published 2012 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Perfect Lie 3.80 avg rating — 1,100 ratings — published 2010 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cuba 3.43 avg rating — 1,048 ratings — published 2003 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I am really here. Yet I know I am not. I am inside something that must be buried in my head. I am layers deep in my own brain.”
― Emily Barr, The One Memory of Flora Banks

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“Don't panic, because everything is probably all right, and it it's not, panicking will make it worse.”
― Emily Barr, The One Memory of Flora Banks

tags: don-t-panic, everything-is-all-right, panicking

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“I want to see how I can exist by myself. I want to be allowed to live inside my memory.”
― Emily Barr, The One Memory of Flora Banks

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