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Lucy Bignall was born in Zambia and grew up in Africa and the Middle East. For the last fifteen years she has been living in Australia, working as a violinist and writer, as well as being mother to three children, two chickens, three cats and a dog. However, she and her family returned to England at the end of 2014 to start a new life and so the adventure begins.... Lucy has had several short stories published and has also written two novels and a memoir describing the two years she spent living in the haunted house of a cannibal in Liberia. A version of it was shortlisted for the Fish memoir prize.