Dr Roopa Farooki is a writer and internal medicine doctor for the NHS. She is the author of six novels with Macmillan and Headline that have been translated into over a dozen languages, a series of middle-grade medical-themed children’s books for Oxford University Press, and a memoir on pandemic medicine for Bloomsbury.

Her writing has been awarded the John C. Laurence Award and an Arts Council Award and has been nominated three times for the Women’s Prize. She is also a lecturer on the Master’s in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and the Ambassador for Family Counselling for Relate, the counselling charity.

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