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Born in London, she attended school in Camberwell and went on to read Modern History at Street Anne"s College, Oxford.
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The Cold Country
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Upstairs People
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A young daughter sees through her mother's self-dramatization and pretensions when she is warned against people who do not see what a wonder it is to be alive. The author's first book, "The Ha-Ha", won the James Tait Black Memorial Award and was produced on television and stage.
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Jennifer Dawson
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During her time at Oxford she suffered a breakdown and spent several months in Warneford Hospital, Oxford. Following the completion of her studies, she worked as a teacher at a convent in Laval in France and later at Oxford University Press where she made editorial contributions to a number of reference works. In addition to these roles, she also worked as social worker in a psychiatric hospital in Worcester and it was her experiences here and, as a patient of such an institution, that formed the basis for her debut novel The Ha-Ha.
The novel, which explores schizophrenia, received considerable critical acclaim, being awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, being adapted for the stage by Richard Eyre and was later broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation on both radio and television
She continued to explore similar themes throughout the 1960s and 1970s via novels such as The Cold Country, Strawberry Boy and A Field of Scarlet Poppies. In the 1980s two further novels The Upstairs People and Judasland were released by the Virago Press.
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Upstairs People
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Upstairs People
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