Emily Barr


Emily Barr is a British travel writer and novelist, author of 12 novels for adults, starting with Backpack in 2001. She has also written three novels for young adults: The One Memory Of Flora Banks, The Truth and Lies of Ella Black and The Girl Who Came Out of the Woods, and a novella, Blackout for the Quick Reads series.
Her first novel, Backpack won the WHSmith New Talent Award in 2002. The One Memory of Flora Banks was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize in 2018, and has been translated into 26 languages
A former Guardian journalist, she has written travel columns for The Guardian and The Observer and lives in Cornwall with her husband and children.