Lamorna Ash

Lamorna Ash is a British writer. She is a regular contributor to "The Times Literary Supplement" and author of "Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town".
Ash attended St Paul's Girls' School and read English at Oxford University before receiving an MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology from University College London. After university, Ash went to Newlyn in Cornwall to learn about their fishing community.
Her first book, "Dark, Salt, Clear" is due to be published by Bloomsbury in April 2020. Ash's book was a BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'. William Dalrymple wrote that her book: 'marks the birth of a new star of non-fiction.'
Ash was interviewed by Russ Roberts of EconTalk.