Helen Dunmore

Helen Dunmore FRSL (12 December 1952 – 5 June 2017) was a British poet, novelist and children's writer. She was born in Yorkshire, Northern England. She was known for her novel Zennor in Darkness (1993).

In 2017, Dunmore published her last book, Birdcage Walk, before writing an article about mortality for the Guardian after she was diagnosed with cancer. She died on 5 June 2017 at her Bristol, South West England, aged 64.

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