
Joanna Cannon is a British author.
Joanna Cannon grew up in Derbyshire; her father was a plumber and her mother owned a giftshop.[1] She left school aged 15, and returned to study for her A-Levels in her thirties.[1] She attended Denstone College, Uttoxeter, and the University of Leicester Medical School, from which she graduated in 2010.[1] She worked as a junior doctor, before specialising in psychiatry and then ceasing to practise.[1][2] She lives in the Peak District with her family and her dog.
Cannon is best known for her debut novel The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, published in 2016,[3][4][5][6] which was shortlisted for the British Book Industry Awards.[1] This was followed by Three Things About Elsie (2018),[4][7][8] and a memoir, Breaking and Mending (September 2019). Her third novel, A Tidy Ending was released in 2022.