Inspirations: Joanna Briscoe, author

Every month, we’ll be asking a writer where they draw their inspirations from. Here, Joanna Briscoe, best-selling author of novels including Sleep with Me reveals her favourites

Book – Beloved by Toni Morrison
Word – Family
Film – All About Eve
Piece of music – Bruch’s Violin Concerto No 1 in G Minor
Place – Dartmoor
Writer – Nabokov

Starting in January, Joanna Briscoe will be teaching Faber Academy’s first daytime writing course, for people who want to get a novel written but for whom evenings and weekends just aren’t possible. 10.30am-1.30pm, two minutes from Holborn Tube. Find out more here

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