Nicola Barr

Nicola Barr spent her formative publishing years as an editorial assistant and editor at Flamingo, the literary imprint of HarperCollins, where she worked on books by Naomi Klein, Anna Burns, Fay Weldon, and Doris Lessing.

She has also spent years as a book reviewer for the Guardian and the Observer.

She has represented many bestselling commercial fiction authors, award-winning crime fiction, women's fiction, and literary fiction, and remains on the lookout for well-written fiction in these genres.

She is endlessly fascinated by dysfunctional families, oddballs, women struggling and achieving, outsiders, and messiness, seeking books that explore difficult relationships, friendships, and working life.