‘A highly original, fresh, new talent of rare quality.’ The Lady

Image: Natalie Miller, 2011

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Jane Rusbridge lives in a tiny village in the South Downs with her husband, a farmer, and the youngest of their five children.

She was a mature student at the University of Chichester, where she won the Lord Wolfendon Prize and the Philip Lebrun Prize for Creative Writing. She is a graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at the university, where she is now Associate Lecturer in English.

The short story that eventually grew into Jane’s debut novel won a Bridport Prize judged by Rose Tremain. Nominated for the 2011 International Dublin IMPAC Literary Award , The Devil’s Music is described by the Bookseller as ‘a beautifully told story of family secrets and betrayal, involving knots, Harry Houdini and the shifting landscape of memory’. Jane’s second novel, Rook, is set in Bosham and will be published by Bloomsbury, in 2012.

Jane is represented by Hannah Westland of Rogers, Coleridge and White Tel: 020 7221 3717/e:hannahw@rcwlitagency.com