Jane Rusbridge lives in a tiny village in the South Downs near the West Sussex coast. Her husband is a farmer and they have five children.  Jane returned to university as a mature student when her youngest child started school and has an MA in Creative Writing (Distinction) from the University of Chichester. She has taught both undergraduate and postgraduate levels at Chichester for the past ten years.

The Devil’s Music, ‘a beautifully told story of family secrets and betrayal, involving knots, Harry Houdini and the shifting landscape of memory’, is published by Bloomsbury and nominated for the 2011 International IMPAC Literary Award.

Bloomsbury will publish Jane’s second novel, Rook, in August 2012 as one of 9 launch titles in the new literary imprint, Bloomsbury Circus ,‘a place of fine writing from all over the world’

Jane is represented by Hannah Westland of Rogers, Coleridge and White
20 Powis Mews, London W11 1JN tel: 020 7221 3717; e:hannahw@rcwlitagency.com

‘A novel of such calibre whets the appetite for more’ – The Irish Examiner

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