Emily Barr

Emily Barr is a British travel writer and novelist, author of novels such as Cuban Heels, Baggage, The Life You Want The Perfect Lie, and most recently The One Memory Of Flora Banks, a novel for young adults.

Barr studied Art History at the Courtauld Institute, winning the Guardian Student Journalist of the Year award in 1994. Barr became briefly notorious in the same year, while working as a researcher at the House of Commons, for her affair with the British MP Hartley Booth, which led to his resignation.

She has written travel columns for The Guardian and The Observer and lives in Cornwall with her partner and their children.