Joanna Quinn was born in London and grew up in Dorset, in the southwest of England, where her debut novel, THE WHALEBONE THEATRE, is set. She has worked in journalism and the charity sector. She is also a short story writer, published by The White Review and Comma Press, among others. She teaches creative writing and lives in a village near the sea in Dorset.

Books by Joanna Quinn

The Whalebone Theatre

by Joanna Quinn - Fiction, Historical Fiction

This transporting, irresistible debut novel --- a story of love, bravery, lost innocence and self-transformation --- takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from the gargantuan cavity of a beached whale into undercover operations during World War II.