The Whitbread Book Awards are among the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards. Currently each year winners are chosen in five categories, novel, first novel, children's, poetry, and biography. Each category winner receives £5000. One of the category winners is selected as the "Book of the Year" and given a further £25 000. The awards are named after and funded by Whitbread PLC a leading British leisure and brewing company. The awards are given both for high literary merit but also for works that are enjoyable reading.
Born to a French mother and an English father; her family life was filled with food and folklore, an environment that would play a key role as an adult in the development of her novels.
Her first novel, The Evil Seed, was published in 1989, but it and a second novel published in 1993 met with only marginal success.
The book was shortlisted for the 1999WhitbreadNovel of the YearAward and the movie rights sold to Miramax Pictures.
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