Mandy Byatt

Mandy Byatt lives in Cheshire and has recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She has been shortlisted in the Gransnet/HQ novel competition and Woman & Home short story competition as well as longlisted in the HWA/Sharpe Books Unpublished Novel Award and Orange Pathé screenwriting competition. She was also a winner of a Radio 5 Live monologue competition. Just Another Liar is her debut novel.

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