Jo Baker (novelist)

She has also written short stories for BBC Radio 4 and reviews for The Guardian and The New York Times Book Review.

Baker was born and grew up in the village of Arkholme, in Lancashire, England.

She was educated at Queen Elizabeth School, Kirkby Lonsdale, and Somerville College, Oxford.

She moved to Belfast in 1995 to study for an MA in Irish literature at Queen's University,[1] where she went on to complete a PhD on the Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen.

Baker lives in Lancaster with her husband, the playwright and screenwriter Daragh Carville, and their two children.