Complex sentence: Briscoe spent a lot of time in New York, researching her second novel "Skin" (runner-up for the Encore Award) which explored the plastic surgery and the psychological toll taken on women by the beauty industry.
Split into simpler sentences: Briscoe spent a lot of time in New York researching her second novel, "Skin", a runner-up for the Encore Award. This explored the plastic surgery and psychological toll taken on women by the beauty industry.