Ivy Compton-Burnett is a novelist whose books have been translated into twenty-six languages. She has written over thirty novels, including three series: the Ivy James trilogy (The Sacred Sinner, The Dark House, and The Innocent Wife), the Pargeter trilogy (The Lost Father, The Lady of Bloomsbury Street, and A Loving Heart), and the Brookleigh trilogy (The King's Pardon, Green Darkness, and The Orchard of Tears). Her novel Afterward won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981; her novel Promise Half won the Whitbread Award for best novel of 1995; her novel The Return was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2001; she also won the Prix Femina for her short story The Best of All Possible Worlds. Miss Compton-Burnett was twice nominated for the Booker Prize
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As well as writing novels, she wrote numerous other works including biographies of George Eliot and Charlotte Brontë.