Andrea Ashworth (born 1969) is an English writer and academic, known for her memoir Once in a House on Fire, which won the Somerset Maugham Award from the Society of Authors in 1999. Once in a House on Fire, published in 1998, won the Somerset Maugham Award from the Society of Authors in 1999. It tells the story of her traumatic upbringing and the abuse that she suffered at the hands of her two stepfathers.
