Charlie Carroll's debut novel, The Lip, portrays the unromantic side of Cornwall few visitors see and which so many novelists choose to overlook. Told through the voice of Melody Janie, a young woman literally living on the edge, The Lip depicts a hidden Cornwall, not the Cornwall of cream teas and Poldark, but the other Cornwall, the second-poorest region in all of northern Europe. A Cornwall indebted to tourists and holidaymakers for its livelihood, but resentful at their intrusion.

Charlie Carroll is the author of three non-fiction books: The Friendship Highway (2014), No Fixed Abode (2013) and On the Edge (2010). He has twice won the K Blundell Trust Award for 'writers under 40 who aim to raise social awareness with their writing', he wrote the voice-over for the TV series Transamazonica (2017) and is one of the Kindness of Strangers storytellers. He lives in Cornwall.

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