The Floating Island

Anna Ralph (also known as Anna Barker) is a British novelist and journalist born in Thornaby-on-Tees in 1974, whose debut novel The Floating Island (2008) won the Betty Trask Award for best debut from the Society of Authors.Royal Literary Fund,Penguin Books. Her second novel Before I Knew Him (2009) was shortlisted for a Good Housekeeping Good Read award and explores themes of love, sexuality, memory, trauma, obsession, and betrayal.Royal Literary Fund. She lives in Durham and continues to write, including works under her birth name Anna Barker such as poetry and short stories.Google Books.