The Writing School

Fascinating, hugely entertaining, instructive in the best sense. I always thought that writing could not be taught, only reading, but this book made me reconsider. I read it in one sitting – Alberto ManguelBoth extremely funny and deeply sad, The Writing School examines how and why we tell our own stories. It’s beautifully written and structured, compelling, wise and fabulously readable – Lissa Evans‘Intellectually riveting but also slyly funny and, out-of-nowhere, heartbreaking. What an achievement. I loved every word of it’ * Nathan Filer *The Writing School is an extraordinary book. It is funny, exhilarating, heart-breaking and passionate. Its delicate pulsing themes are held like a bird in the writer’s confident, gentle hand. Miranda France has created a brilliant, ephemeral eulogy for her beloved brother and a luminous gift for her reader – Katharine Norbury, author of The Fish LadderLife, with its unexpected troughs and highs, the disciplines of teaching a creative writing course and the shadow of a family tragedy provide the focus for a memoir that brims with humour, honesty and intelligence. The Writing School taught me a lot – Elizabeth Buchan‘A sheer delight - so warm, generous and funny. Every page moved me, or made me laugh’ Irina Dumitrescu

Miranda France is a writer, translator, editor and critic. Her translations from Spanish include novels by Claudia Pineiro, Alberto Manguel, Liliana Heker and Sergio Olguin. She is a consultant editor for the Times Literary Supplement and a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund. She lives in London.