Sophie Hannah

Sophie Hannah (born 1971) is a British poet and novelist.

Life
Sophie Hannah was born in Manchester, England; her father was the academic Norman Geras and her mother is the author Adèle Geras. She attended Beaver Road Primary School in Didsbury and the University of Manchester.

From 1997 to 1999 she was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge and between 1999 and 2001 a junior research fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. She lives with her husband and two children in Cambridge.

She published her first book of poems, The Hero and the Girl Next Door, at the age of 24. Her style is often compared to the light verse of Wendy Cope and the surrealism of Lewis Carroll. Her poems' subjects tend toward the personal, utilizing classic rhyme schemes with understated wit, humour and warmth. She has published five previous collections of poetry with Carcanet Press. In 2004, she was named one of the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation poets. Her poems are studied at GCSE, A-level and degree level across the UK.

Hannah is also the author of a book for children and six psychological crime novels. Her first novel, Little Face, was published in 2006 and has sold more than 100,000 copies. Her fifth crime novel, Lasting Damage, was published in the UK on 17 February 2011. Kind of Cruel, her seventh psychological thriller to feature the characters Simon Waterhouse and Charlie Zailer, was published in 2012.

Her 2008 novel The Point of Rescue was produced for TV as a two-part drama named "Case Sensitive" and shown on 2 and 3 May 2011 on the UK's ITV network. It stars Olivia Williams in the lead role of DS Charlie Zailer and Darren Boyd as DC Simon Waterhouse. Its first showing had 5.4 million viewers. A second two-part story based on The Other Half Lives was shown on 12 and 13 July 2012.

==Publications=

Poetry

 * Early Bird Blues, 1993 (Limited Edition Pamphlet)
 * Second Helping of Your Heart, 1994 (Limited Edition Pamphlet)
 * The Hero and the Girl Next Door (Carcanet Press,1995)
 * Hotels Like Houses, (Carcanet Press, 1996)
 * Leaving and Leaving You, (Carcanet Press, 1999)
 * Love Me Slender: Poems About Love, 2000
 * First of the Last Chances, (Carcanet Press, 2003)
 * Selected Poems, 2006
 * Pessimism for Beginners, (Carcanet Press, 2007)

Novels

 * The Superpower of Love, 2002
 * Cordial and Corrosive: an unfairy tale, 2000
 * Gripless, 1999

Crime Fiction (The Waterhouse and Zailer series)

 * 1) Little Face (Hodder & Stoughton, 2006)
 * 2) Hurting Distance (Hodder & Stoughton, 2007) also published as The Truth-Teller's Lie (2010)
 * 3) The Point of Rescue (Hodder & Stoughton, 2008) also published as The Wrong Mother (2009)
 * 4) The Other Half Lives (Hodder & Stoughton, 2009) also published as The Dead Lie Down (2009)
 * 5) A Room Swept White (Hodder  Stoughton, 2010) also published as The Cradle in the Grave (2011)
 * 6) Lasting Damage (Hodder & Stoughton, 2011) also published as The Other Woman's House (2012)
 * 7) Kind of Cruel (Hodder & Stoughton, 2012)
 * 8) The Carrier (Hodder & Stoughton, 2013)

Short fiction

 * The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets (2008)

Juvenile

 * The Box Room, Poems for Children
 * Carrot the Goldfish (1992)

Translated

 * The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My by Tove Jansson
 * Who Will Comfort Toffle? by Tove Jansson