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Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
Born in London, she has degrees from the University of Bristol and Royal Holloway, University of London, and a History DPhil from Wadham College, University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis Educated expectations: graduate mothers and their work in the long 1950s explored women’s lives and work in post-war Britain.
Her fiction is sometimes inspired by the letters and diaries from across the centuries found in archival collections, and by the cities and rural landscapes where she’s lived and worked. She writes to try to make sense of the world, to explore ideas, make connections between them, and to imagine characters and their motivations as they navigate the complexities of life.
When not reading, researching, and writing, she can be found wandering around art galleries and museums, walking in the countryside with her dog, or pottering amongst the roses in her garden.
Author photo credit: Hannah Veale
Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
Born in London, she has degrees from the University of Bristol and Royal Holloway, University of London, and a History DPhil from Wadham College, University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis Educated expectations: graduate mothers and their work in the long 1950s explored women’s lives and work in post-war Britain.
Her fiction is sometimes inspired by the letters and diaries from across the centuries found in archival collections, and by the cities and rural landscapes where she’s lived and worked. She writes to try to make sense of the world, to explore ideas, make connections between them, and to imagine characters and their motivations as they navigate the complexities of life.
When not reading, researching, and writing, she can be found wandering around art galleries and museums, walking in the countryside with her dog, or pottering amongst the roses in her garden.
Author photo credit: Hannah Veale
Author: Lucy Golding
Genres: Upmarket/ Book Club Fiction
A vanished man, a hidden birth, and the letters that took seventy years to tell the truth
1952: Dorothy Whittingdale is the last person to see her married lover before he vanishes from Paddington station under a cloud of scandal, leaving her, days after a secret birth, alone with what she can never tell.
Present day: translator Clair Brightman, unravelling after walking out on the life she was about to start, is drawn into decoding Dorothy's letters for a celebrity historian chasing his next bestseller. In a snowbound Cumbrian cottage, buried in seventy years of coded diaries and love letters relayed across false trails, Clair uncovers a family Dorothy hid even from herself, and finds the courage to stop hiding her own.
A dual-timeline novel about the secrets we keep to survive, and what it costs to finally put them down.
For readers of Kate Morton's The Lake House, Clare Chambers's Small Pleasures, Rachel Hore's A Week in Paris, and Natasha Solomons's The Song of Hartgrove Hall.