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Isabel Wolff

b. 1960

British novelist

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About Isabel Wolff

Born 1960. Isabel Wolff is a writer, journalist and novelist.

Isabel Wolff is a British novelist in the Chick lit genre. She was born in Warwickshire, England. She graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She currently lives in Islington, London and has a home on the Roseland Peninsula. Aside from being a novelist, Wolff has worked as a radio producer and reporter for the BBC World Service. The same book was also on the short list for the 2011 American Library Association's The Reading List for Women Fiction. A Vintage Affair is also her first novel that reached a wider readership, including being published for the United States book market.

Kirkus Reviews wrote that in The Very Picture of You (2011), Wolff handled multiple plotlines, balancing the stories of "betrayal, deception and remorse" told in the novel in a skillful manner.

Wolff's novel, Ghostwritten (2014), deals with the largely unknown issue of civilians from South East Asia, many of them women and children, who were sent to live in concentration camps run by the Japanese during World War II. The story is very much about "childhood traumas," such as losing a sibling.

Publications The Trials of Tiffany Trott, Onyx (New York, NY), 1998 The Making of Minty Malone, Onyx (New York, NY), 1999 Out of the Blue, HarperCollins (London, England), 2001, Red Dress Ink (New York, NY), 2003 Rescuing Rose, HarperCollins (London, England), 2002 Behaving Badly, HarperCollins (London, England), 2003 A Question of Love, HarperCollins (London, England), 2005 Forget Me Not, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2007 A Vintage Affair, Bantam Books (New York, NY), 2009 The Very Picture of You, Bantam Books (New York, NY), 2011 Ghostwritten (in UK) or Shadows Over Paradise (in US), HarperCollins (London, England), 2014

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1960, Warwickshire
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Education
University of Cambridge

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Who is Isabel Wolff?

British novelist

When was Isabel Wolff born?

Isabel Wolff was born in 1960 in Warwickshire.

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Isabel Wolff is a writer, journalist and novelist.

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· Wikidata: Q3154833

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