Helen Falconer

Novelist Helen Falconer was born and brought up in London. She was educated at Camden School for Girls, Dartington School, Devon, and St. Anne's College, Oxford. She works as a book reviewer for the Guardian newspaper. Her first novel, Primrose Hill, the story of a group of North London teenagers, was published in 1999. Her second, Sky High: A Novel (2003), depicts love, sex and violence in a forbidden relationship set against an urban landscape. Her third novel, The Changeling, was published in 2015 and features Aoife, a girl living between the human and the fairy world. She takes up the story of Aoife again in Dark Beloved (2016). 

Helen Falconer lived in London while she wrote her first two novels, but now lives in County Mayo, Ireland, which serves as inspiration for her two most recent novels.