Laura Marshall

Laura Marshall is a British writer known for the writing of the novel “Friend Request” that has gone on to attain much critical acclaim. Marshall was born and raised in Wiltshire, and attended the University of Sussex where she studied English. After finishing college, she worked for over two decades in conference production, before she decided to fulfill a lifelong dream of becoming a published author. Dusting off a manuscript she had been writing and never finished for twelve years, she enrolled for a three-month novel writing course at Curtis Brown Creative. “Friend Request” her first novel made the shortlist for the 2016 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize and the 2016 Bath Novel Award. She lives with her family composed of husband and two children in Kent, England.