Linda Grant

The Clothes on Their Backs is a novel by Linda Grant that was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008 and recipient of an Orange Prize. It was first published in 2008.

When I Lived in Modern Times is a novel by Linda Grant. It won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000. Following being awarded the Orange Prize, there were accusations of plagiarism leveled against the author. The accusations were claimed to be unfounded as the tracts indicated had been referenced, and agreed to be …

'If you go back and look at your life there are certain scenes, acts, or maybe just incidents on which everything that follows seems to depend. If only you could narrate them, then you might be understood. I mean the part of yourself that you don't know how to explain.' In the early seventies, a glamorous and …