Amanda Hodgkinson

Amanda Hodgkinson (born 25 October 1965, Somerset, England) is a British novelist.

Hodgkinson's debut novel 22 Britannia Road was a bestseller in the United States and the Netherlands, and won multiple awards including the Waterstones 11 award in 2011 for best debut novels, The Silver Feather and The Italian Cariparma Award 2012.

Biography Hodgkinson was born in Somerset but grew up in a village on the estuary of the River Blackwater in Essex. Hodgkinson associates her memories of childhood with "shingle beaches and mudflats, grey-green heather, salt marshes, messing about in boats, gangs of rowdy kids playing all day along the sea-walls, and the ever-present cries of seagulls".

Later, Hodgkinson moved to Suffolk, where she took an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. After the MA, Hodgkinson and her family decided to move to South West France. It took them a few years to settle down, to learn the language and to get used to living in another country far from relatives and friends. It also won the Wаterstones 11 prize for best debut novels in 2011, The Italian Cаripаrma Award 2012, The Silver Feather and The Prix Agоra de St Fоy 2013 in France.

Spilt Milk In 2014 Penguin Books released Hodgkinson's second novel "Spilt Milk". In Rachel Hore's review of Spilt Milk in The Independent newspaper, she wrote "Amanda Hodgkinson is fast becoming a fine fictional chronicler of women’s lives in the mid-20 century".

The novel "traces the eventful lives of two sisters from before the first world war to the 1960s".

1913. Unmarried Nellie, Vivian and Rose Marsh live "on the edge of the world"

Tin Town is a novella about the British women who emigrated to the US in the 1940s in the pursuit of love and happiness. These women had left their homes and families on the way to a new and better life.

In Tin Town the main character, a small girl Molly cannot understand why she has to move to America with her mother. Molly wants to be back home with her sister Susan, Susan's husband Clarkie and Grandmother, and she recalls the last years spent in the house on the farm in their small English village.