Wendy Sacks Jones

Wendy Sacks Jones is a former BBC journalist who now enjoys the freedom of not having to stick to the facts. As Wendy Jones, she worked in a range of roles at the BBC, from education correspondent and Today programme reporter to head of education policy and deputy company secretary.

After going freelance, she helped found the education charity, National Numeracy, and became its first director of communications. She has written for the Guardian and various education publications, blogged for the Huffington Post and completed an MA in creative writing.

Her short fiction has been published by Funny Pearls, Grindstone and the writers’ collective 26 (where’s she’s a board member).  She co-edited a book about the prison charity, Fine Cell Work, with contributions from Tracy Chevalier, Esther Freud and Louis de Bernières.

The Candidate’s Husband is her first novel. It was highly commended in the Exeter Novel Prize and shortlisted in the Mslexia Novel Prize and the Virginia Prize for Fiction.

Wendy has three grown-up children and lives in south London, where she also teaches English to refugees.

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