{"id":193,"date":"2026-05-29T09:29:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annajarota.fr\/?p=193"},"modified":"2026-07-08T12:41:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:41:21","slug":"marcia-hutchinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annajarota.fr\/en\/2026\/05\/29\/marcia-hutchinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcia Hutchinson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"Marcia Hutchinson<\/strong>Marcia Hutchinson<\/strong>\u00a0is an award-winning British publisher, lawyer, community activist and former Labour Councillor who became a full-time writer aged sixty. After growing up in Bradford and studying at Oxford University (the first pupil from her school to do so), Marcia worked in law before founding educational publishing company Primary Colours and was awarded an MBE for services to Cultural Diversity in 2010. She is the co-author with Kate Griffin (under the pseudonym Lila Cain) of the critically acclaimed historical fiction novel The Blackbirds of St Giles<\/em>\u00a0(Simon & Schuster, 2025). The Mercy Step <\/em>(Cassava Republic Press, 2025) is Marcia\u2019s first solo novel.\u00a0She was named an Observer<\/em> Best Debut Novelist of 2025, and The Mercy Step<\/em> was the winner of the 2026 British Book Awards Discover Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the 2026 Women\u2019s Prize for Fiction.<\/p>\n

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Carla Briner<\/a><\/h4>\n