Joanne Harris at the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival

Joanne Harris was born in Barnsley in 1964, to a French mother and an English father. She studied at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and was a teacher for 15 years, during which time she published three novels; The Evil Seed, Sleep, Pale Sister and Chocolat, which was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp.

Since then, she has written eight more novels; Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange, Coastliners, Holy Fools, Gentlemen and Players, The Lollipop Shoes and Runemarks, and most recently blueeyedboy.

She plays bass guitar in a band first formed when she was 16, is studying Old Norse and lives in Yorkshire with her husband and daughter.

In this programme, she is in conversation with the Yorkshire Post's Digital Editor, David Behrens.

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Blueeyedboy, published by Transworld, is a dark psychological thriller set in he world of the internet, where no-one is quite what they seem to be, and every taste is catered for, even the ones to which we dare not confess.

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