Joanna Briscoe is the author of Sleep with Me, Skin and Mothers and Other Lovers.
a formidably talented writer
- Independent on Sunday
Anger - a short story by Joanna Briscoe
As part of a the series of programmes which shed light on an aspect of anger in a mix of fiction, memoir and thought pieces, Joanna Briscoe's moving short story takes us into the life of a terminally ill boy, and the minutiae of personal, impotent anger.
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"Anger" on
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by Robert Madge.
Producer: David Roper Broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
June 2010: On Lying
Woman's Hour, June 8, 2010: In Mavis Cheek’s latest novel, the central character decides to tell the truth all the time – with devastating consequences. In Joanna Briscoe’s last novel, the characters get caught in a web of deception. Together these two novelists discuss lying and why we do it Jane Garvey.
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Joanna on Woman's Hour,
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Joanna's New Novel
Joanna’s new novel will be published by Bloomsbury in February 2011, and by Bloomsbury USA in the same year. More information to follow.
Joanna talks about the TV adaptation of "Sleep with Me" on Front Row
Front Row, BBC Radio 4, Dec. 14Joanna
Briscoe and Andrew Davies talk to Mark Lawson about Davies' adaptation
of her "Sleep
With Me"
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"Sleep With Me" premieres on ITV on New Year's Eve.
Sleep With Me, adapted by Andrew Davies as
a two hour drama starring Adrian Lester, Jodhi May and Anamaria
Marinca will be show on ITV on New Year's Eve.
“It's a writer's dream to have a novel adapted by Andrew Davies. Though he's famous for inserting a sexual element into his adaptations, here's a novel where he didn't need to! I think this will be tense, dark and erotic drama, with a classy cast, and I can't wait to see the finished film.”
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