Homecoming

About Tanya Bullock

Tanya Bullock is a college lecturer writer and award-winning filmmaker. She lives in the West Midlands with her husband and two young children. She has a passion for foreign culture and languages (inherited from her French mother) and in her youth travelled extensively throughout Australia America Asia and Europe. As a filmmaker she has gained local recognition including funding and regional television broadcast through ITV's First Cut scheme; two nominations for a Royal Television Society Midlands Award and in 2010 a Royal Television Society Award in the category of best promotional film. In 2008 she directed a short drama Second Honeymoon which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. On maternity leave in 2011 and in need of a creative outlet Tanya began to write That Special Someone the story of a mother's quest to help her learning-disabled daughter find love. It has been longlisted for The People's Book Prize and The Beryl Bainbridge First Time Author Award 2015/16. Her second novel The Homecoming will be published on April 1 2016.