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Jolley was born in Birmingham, England as Monica Elizabeth Knight, to an English father and Austrian-born mother who was the daughter of a high ranking Railways official. She grew up in the Black Country in the English industrial Midlands. She was educated privately until age 11, when she was sent to Sibford School, a Quaker boarding school near Banbury in Oxfordshire which she attended from 1934 to 1940.

At 17 she began training as an orthopaedic nurse in London and later in Surrey. She began an affair with one of her patients, Leonard Jolley (1914–1994), and subsequently became pregnant. Leonard Jolley was already married to Joyce Jolley, who was also pregnant. Elizabeth moved in with the…

Novels

Palomino (1980)
The Newspaper of Claremont Street (1981)
Miss Peabody's Inheritance (1983)
Mr Scobie's Riddle (1983)
Milk and Honey (1984)
Foxybaby (1985)
The Well (1986)
The Sugar Mother (1988)
My Father's Moon (1989)
Cabin Fever (1990)
The Georges' Wife (1993)
The Orchard Thieves (1995)
Lovesong (1997)
An Accommodating Spouse (1999)
An Innocent Gentleman (2001)

Short stories and plays

Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories (1976)
The Well-Bred Thief (1977)
The Travelling Entertainer and Other Stories (1979)
Woman in a Lampshade (1983)
Off the Air: Nine Plays for Radio (1995)
Fellow Passengers: Collected…

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