Andrea Ashworth (born 1969) is an English writer and academic, known for hermemoirOnce in a House on Fire, which won theSomerset Maugham Award from theSociety of Authors in 1999.

Ashworth was born in Manchester in 1969. She studied atXaverian College in Manchester^[1] She studied atHertford College, Oxford, where she was a scholar.^[2] She later became a Junior Research Fellow ofJesus College, Oxford.^[3]

Once in a House on Fire, published in 1998, won theSomerset Maugham Award from theSociety of Authors in 1999.^[4] It tells the story of her traumatic upbringing and the abuse that she suffered at the hands of her two stepfathers.^[3]

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