Roopa Farooki

Roopa Farooki is a junior doctor working for the NHS in London and Kent.  She has four children (twin girls and two boys).

Roopa is also the award-winning author of six literary novels for adults that have been published in over twenty countries, and has been listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction three times.  She received an Arts Council Award and Author's Foundation Prize for work that increases understanding between cultures. Roopa is also the author of the critically acclaimed non-fiction title Everything Is True: A junior doctor's story of life, death and grief in a time of pandemic and the middle-grade series The Double Detectives Medical Mysteries  She lectures in creative writing at the University of Oxford, is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow and is the Ambassador for the Family for the relationship charity, Relate.

Roopa's new middle grade series for Oxford Univeristy Press, The Double Detectives Medical Mysteries, featuring Ali and Tulip #SuperSmartBraveBrownGirls as heroes, will launch in January 2020 with The Cure for Crime.
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www.roopafarooki.com
Twitter - @RoopaFarooki

Represented by: Catherine Pellegrino

Selected Titles
Everything Is True (Bloomsbury, 2021)
The Cure for Crime (Oxford University Press, 2014)
The Good Children (Headline, 2014)
The Flying Man (Headline, 2012)
Half Life (Macmillan, 2010)
The Way Things Look To Me (Macmillan, 2009)