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Annabel Abbs (born October 20 1964) is an English writer and author. The daughter of the poet, Peter Abbs, and the gardening writer, Barbara Abbs, she now lives in London and East Sussex.

Her first novel, The Joyce Girl ., was published in 2016 and tells the fictionalised story of Lucia Joyce, daughter of James Joyce. It won the Impress Prize for New Writers, the Spotlight First Novel Award, was longlisted for the Bath Novel Award and the Waverton Good Read Award. The Joyce Girl was published in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Turkey, Spain, South America, Bulgaria and Russia.

Biography
Abbs was born in Bristol and grew up in Bristol, Dorset, Wales and Lewes in East Sussex. She studied English Literature at the University of East Anglia, and Marketing and statistics at Kingston University. She has four children.

She has written for many newspapers and magazines including The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Irish Times, The Weekend Australian Review, Psychologies and Elle Magazine and spoken at several literary festivals.

Published Works
Abbs, Annabel (2016), The Joyce Girl, Impress, UK, 2016 ISBN 978-1-907605-87-1