"Friends of the writer Andrea Badenoch, who died in January 2004, will remember her at her best: dressed to the nines and sipping white wine, telling some outrageous anecdote with a wicked grin on her face. Though a prolific author and mother of three children, she always found time to party."
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The Andrea Badenoch Fiction Award was set up in her memory. Applications for the 2008 award have now closed; the winner will be announced at the Northern Writers' Awards ceremony at the Hexham Book Festival. The ceremony will take place in the Queen's Hall Arts Centre, Beaumont Street, Hexham, at 3.00 pm on Sunday 4th May: tickets (price £3, £2 concessions) are available from .
