GLITTERBALLS

Michele Howarth was born and raised in Liverpool and studied Fine Art at Leeds Polytechnic. She’s had a long career as a sculptor which has been variously interrupted by caring for a poorly husband, stepchildren, aged parents and the Happy Mondays… She has exhibited with the Nicholas Treadwell Gallery for many years, but has also taken part in group shows at The White Cube, The Hepworth and the Saatchi galleries. In the 1990s she co-wrote ‘Grope’, a play based on her time working in a dating agency. It subsequently became the subject of a BBC2 Video Diary - an experience she describes as so joyless and exploitative that it put her off writing for the next thirty years. Glitterballs is her debut novel.