Joanna Cannon vows to keep working in NHS after £300,000 book deal

Novelist who began writing to relieve the stress of her psychiatry job says literary success will not stop her listening to ‘real voices’ in hospitalA bestselling debut novelist who wrote her book in a hospital car park as stress release from her job as a psychiatrist is to return to the NHS. Her decision comes despite a £300,000 deal for her second book and a contract for two more novels.Joanna Cannon, whose first book The Trouble With Goats and Sheep has now sold more than 100,000 copies in paperback in the UK and has been optioned for film by the makers of the Amy Winehouse documentary Amy, said she was returning to the health service because she missed her patients. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2017-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Avon Books re-signs Sue Moorcroft in three-book deal

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Titan Books lands Hannah Mathewson's debut fantasy in two-book deal

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PRH US donates up to 30,000 books to First Book charity in Obamas' name

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