Julia Darling has lived in Newcastle upon Tyne since 1980. She began her writing career as a poet and worked with a performance group, The Poetry Virgins, for many years 'taking poetry to the places that least expected it.' In 1998 her first novel Crocodile Soup'was published by Anchor at Transworld. The novel went on to be published in Canada, Australia, Europe and the States and was long-listed...