Helen Cross was born and brought up in the village of Newbald in East Yorkshire. Her first novel My Summer of Love won a Betty Trask Award and was made into a feature film released October 2004 in the UK. Her short stories have appeared in various magazines and anthologies and her plays have been broadcast on the radio. She was awarded an Arts Council International Fellowship to work on her writing in Canada. Her second novel, The Secrets She Keeps, is published by Bloomsbury.
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