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Jo Morey

Jo is a graduate of the Faber Academy Write a Novel course and the Curtis Brown Breakthrough Mentoring Scheme.

 

She has a BA English Literature and French from the University of Leeds. The manuscript for her debut novel came runner-up in the Cheshire Novel Prize. Jo was awarded the 2023 Claire Mannion Literary Endeavour Prize and was shortlisted for the Primadonna Prize, the Plaza First Pages Award and Killer Nashville’s Claymore Award in the literary category.

Her debut novel, The Night Lagoon (UK), billed as ‘The debut of the summer’ is published by HarperFiction on 3rd July (and as Lime Juice Money in the US/CA). Set in 1980s and contemporary Belize, it follows a hearing-impaired woman who’s trapped in an increasingly volatile relationship 5,000 miles from home in the jungle. It’s The White Lotus meets The Mosquito Coast, with echoes of The Paper Palace and Where the Crawdads Sing.

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