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Naomi Wood is a published author who lives in London and is originally from New York.

She was born in 1983 and studied at Cambridge and at UEA for her MA in creative writing. She has lived in such different places as Paris, Hong Kong, and Washington, D.C.

Wood wrote The Godless Boys, Mrs. Hemingway, The Hiding Game, and her short story collection This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things. Her books have won her a lot of recognition and awards, including the British Library Hay Festival Prize, a Jerwood Award, and her books have been shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Walter Scott Prize, and the Historical Writers Golden Crown.

Her book Mrs. Hemingway was a 2014 Richard and Judy Bookclub pick and a Chanel Bookclub pick in 2023. It was a shortlist selection for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Her book The Hiding Game was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and was shortlisted for a HWA Gold Crown.

Wood won the BBC National Short Story Prize in 2023 for ‘Comorbidities’. Her short stories have won the Desperate Literature Tbilisi Prize and has been shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize, the Society of Authors Prize, and the Gallery Beggar Press Prize. She has interests in complicated femininity and transgressive motherhood and how they fit into the modern workplace.

The author is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She also has her own teaching intensives on how to write novels and short stories.

Her work has been translated into over a dozen different languages.

Mrs. Hemingway is a 2014 book written by Naomi Wood. This is a story of heart break, love, and passion in which Mrs. Hemingway shows the love triangles that were able to have a huge impact when it came to wrecking Hemingway’s marriages. It turns out that the Paris Wife may have only been the very start of the story.

This story got readers’ interest going when it came to Ernest Hemingway and his romantic life. Hadley was only one of four women who ended up getting married to the writer. This book tells the real story of how it was to be loved by the most famous and handsome writer of his generation. Hadley, Pauline, Martha and Mary Hemingway all believed that they would make it work with their husband and ensure that their love lasted forever, but they were all proved wrong in the end one by one.

This story has been told in four parts and has been based on real love letters and telegrams. The details are part of what make this book so intriguing! It covers different eras from the twenties of Paris through the sixties of Cold War America, a story that readers won’t want to miss. Check out this work from Naomi Wood to see what you think!

The Hiding Game is a 2019 book written by Naomi Wood. Have you been looking for something that is very interesting to read and will take you away from the everyday? This might be the book for you!

The year is 1922 and main character Paul Beckermann has come to the Bauhaus art school. He is immediately pulled in by the teaching of the people there and by his students. He also makes new friends that he finds alluring, and the more time that they spend together the closer that they find that they become. He also finds himself falling in love with Charlotte, who is mysterious and mesmerizing. But it turns out that he is not the only one who is after her and soon a rivalry takes place.

As political tensions only go up in Germany, the Bauhaus appears to be under threat. The group starts to fall apart under the pressure of its own betrayals and love affairs. It’s been decades now and Paul finds himself haunted by a secret. Then an old friend from the Bauhaus comes up and he finds that it’s a good time to break his silence.

This is an award worthy work from an award-winning author that you won’t want to miss. At times suspenseful, at other times emotional, this is the story of the line between obsession and love that is set against the most upset and turbulent era of our past. Check out The Hiding Game to follow along with every word for yourself.