‘Jar Baby’ is the debut novel by UEA alumna Hayley Webster and has just been published by Dexter
Haven Publishing, the first of a three-book deal. Hayley studied English and United States Literature at the University of Essex, graduating with a first class degree in 2002. She graduated with distinction from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2005, and was selected for an Escalator Award, administered by Writers’ Centre Norwich, that same year. She received an Arts Council East Grant for the Arts award in 2006 to assist in the writing of ‘Jar Baby’, and currently teaches English at a high school in Norfolk.