Laura Barton

Laura Barton was born in Lancashire but has since defected to London. She was a Feature Writer and music writer for the Guardian for more than a decade, and now writes for a range of publications - The Guardian and The Observer, Q, Intelligent Life and the New York Times among them. She is a regular writer and broadcaster for Radio 4, and her series exploring the relationship between music and landscape will broadcast this autumn. Her first novel, Twenty-One Locks, was published in 2010. She is at work on a second novel, and a non-fiction book about music and sadness.