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Isabel Ashdown is a British writer of realist fiction and poetry. Her debut novel Glasshopper was released in September 2009, receiving significant reviews and acclaim in the national press. Glasshopper was featured in Waterstone's Magazine, and is highly recommended for book groups.

Ashdown grew up in a East Wittering, a seaside village in West Sussex, and continues to live in the county with her two children and her husband, who is a carpenter.

After spending many years in senior management roles within the cosmetics industry Ashdown enrolled at the University of Chichester and, in 2007, gained a first class honours degree in English & Creative Writing, receiving the Hugo Donnelly prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement.

An extract from her debut novel Glasshopper, written whilst studying for her BA, won the 2008 Mail on Sunday Novel Competition. Earlier in her writing career, Ashdown was shortlisted for the 2006 Bridport Prize with her poem "Milk and Eggs" and has had short stories published in a number of anthologies.

Glasshopper is published by Myriad Editions and since its release in September 2009 it has been named one of the Best Books of 2009 by both the London Evening Standard and the Observer Review.

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