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Polly Walshe was born in London and has a degree in Classics from Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Her 1997 novel The Latecomer won a Betty Trask Award and her poems have been published in The Spectator. In 2014 she was a runner up in the Cardiff International Poetry Competition. Her favourite novel is Jane Austen's Persuasion. The books she's most enjoyed this year are 'A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip' by Alexander Masters, and Curtis Sittenfeld's 'Prep'. Apart from writing her main pursuit is painting. She has recently exhibited with Oxford Art Society and regularly posts her work on Instagram. She lives in Oxford with her family.