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URL:https://felixstowebookfestival.co.uk/events/30a
SUMMARY:Jemma Wayne - Chains of Sand
DESCRIPTION:\n\nBailey's longlisted author Jemma Wayne will be talking abou
 t her groundbreaking second novel\, Chains of Sand. Set between London and
  Israel amidst the turmoil of war\, Chains of Sand is driven by the powerf
 ul love stories of young Israeli Jews\, Arabs\, and Brits alike\, each bat
 tling to forge their own identities against the hopes\, fears and prejudic
 es of their families\, and the societies they find themselves trapped with
 in.\n\nJemma Wayne graduated from Cambridge University with an academic sc
 holarship for her achievements in Social and Political Sciences\, and went
  on to obtain her PGDIP in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Wes
 tminster before becoming a journalist and writer. Working first as a repor
 ter at The Jewish Chronicle and later as a columnist for The Jewish News\,
  she is now a regularly featured blogger at The Huffington Post and contin
 ues to contribute to various publications including The Evening Standard\,
  The Independent on Sunday\, Standard Issue and The Jewish Quarterly\, amo
 ngst others.\n\nJemma’s first full-length work\, Bare Necessities – a 
 tongue-in-cheek guide to being a grownup – was published by Piatkus Book
 s in 2004. Her play\, Negative Space\, ran at The New End Theatre\, Hampst
 ead\, in 2009 to critical acclaim. And her short stories have appeared in 
 a variety of publications including Ether Books\, 33 West by Limehouse Boo
 ks\, and Kerouac’s Dog Magazine. Jemma’s first novel\, After Before\, 
 was published by Legend Press in 2014. It was short-listed for the 2015 Wa
 verton Good Read Award\, long-listed for the Guardian’s 2014 Not the Boo
 ker Prize and for the 2015 Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction\, former
 ly the Orange Prize.\n\n&nbsp\;
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