Janice Shinebourne

Jan Lowe Shinebourne was born on 23 June 1947 in Canje, on the Rose Hall sugar plantation, in Berbice, the second of the six children of a grocer. A pupil at Berbice High School, she began studies at the University of Guyana, then moved to London in 1970 after her marriage, completed a degree there, taught in several colleges and obtained a master's degree in English. She has been writing since the mid-sixties, also publishes under the first name Janice, and has lived in Sussex since 2006.

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• NovelTimepieceJanice Shinebourne · 1986Literature