Joy, Avril

Avril Joy was born and brought up on the Somerset Levels, the setting for her novel The Sweet Track, published in 2007 by Flambard Press. She now lives and works in the North East of England, near Bishop Auckland. Her most recent novel, Blood Tide, is a crime novel set in Newcastle and Weardale. In this venture into crime fiction she draws on her long experience of life inside a women's prison, having worked for a number of years as a teacher, and subsequently as Head of Learning and Skills, at HMP Low Newton, Durham City. In 2012 she won the inaugural Costa short story competition and was sho...