Poppy Adams is a British

United Kingdom

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 television documentary director/producer and novelist.

Adams attended the Dragon School

Dragon School

The Dragon School is a British coeducational, preparatory school in the city of Oxford, founded in 1877 as the Oxford Preparatory School, or OPS. It is primarily known as a boarding school, although it also takes day pupils...

 in Oxford

Oxford

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. Later she received a degree in Natural Sciences from Durham University

Durham University

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Adams has made films for the BBC

BBC

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, Channel 4

Channel 4

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 and The Discovery Channel. Her first novel, The Behaviour of Moths, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award in the 2008 Costa Book Awards

2008 Costa Book Awards

The shortlists were announced on 18 November 2008. The winners in each category were announced on 5 January 2009, and the overall winner for Book of the Year was announced on 27 January 2009.-First Novel:Winner:*Sadie Jones, The OutcastShortlist:...

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Poppy Adams lives in London

London

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. She is married with three children.

Books

• The Behaviour of Moths. Virago Press
  Virago Press
  Virago is a British publishing company founded in 1973 by Carmen Callil to publish books by women writers. Both new works and reissued books by neglected authors have featured on the imprint's list....
  
  , 2008. ISBN 978-1844084869.
• The Sister. Knopf, 2008. ISBN 978-0307268167.