Camilla Barnes Biography, Books, and Similar Authors

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Camilla Barnes
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Camilla Barnes

Camilla Barnes Biography

Camilla Barnes was born and brought up in England but moved to France in her twenties. She lives in Paris and works in theatre, doing every job possible there except act. She writes for the stage in both English and French. The Usual Desire to Kill is her first novel.

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    If you enjoyed:
    The Usual Desire to Kill

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    Born and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the... (more)

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