Name Deborah Lawrenson | Role Novelist | |
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Education Trinity College, Cambridge Books The Art of Falling, The Sea Garden, The Lantern, The Moonbathers, The Lantern Intl: A No | ||
Deborah lawrenson reads the prologue of the lantern
Deborah Lawrenson (born November 1960 in London, England) is a British novelist and journalist.
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She was educated at Blackheath High School, The British School of Brussels and Eastbourne College, and read English at Trinity College, Cambridge. She trained as a journalist on the Kentish Times, then worked for The Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and Woman's Journal. Her novels Hot Gossip (1994), Idol Chatter (1995), The Moonbathers (1998), The Art of Falling (2005) and Songs of Blue and Gold (2008) were all published by Random House UK. The Lantern (2011) was her first to be published in the United States, by HarperCollins, and by Orion in the UK. It was featured on Channel 4's The TV Book Club in 2011, and short listed for Romantic Novel of the Year 2012 (Epic category) by the Romantic Novelists' Association. The Sea Garden was published in 2014, and 300 Days of Sun in 2016. Her novels have been translated into twelve languages. In October 2016, 300 Days of Sun was selected as one of the Great Group Reads for National Reading Group Month, run by the Women's National Book Association in the USA.
She lives in Kent and Provence, and posts regularly on her blog.