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By putting one of our authors on the 'Hotspot' we hope to give
you and your reading group the chance to have all those burning
questions you might have, answered by the authors themselves - we
can't imagine a more direct way of uncovering an author's motivations
and intentions!
Deborah Lawrenson is this month's hotspot author. Published in
Arrow paperbacks, The
Art of Falling is Deborah Lawrenson's fourth novel. Set
simultaneously in wartime and modern Italy, this is an account of
both a young man's emotional experiences of war, and a young woman's
moving search for her long-lost father. On one level a detective
story, The
Art of Falling is also a sensuous evocation of love and
landscape, loss and regeneration.
After graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge, Deborah Lawrenson
worked as a journalist on the Kentish Times, the Daily Mail and
the Mail on Sunday. She was also the London Section editor of Woman's
Journal magazine. She has written three previous novels: The Moonbathers
(1998), and the newspaper satires Hot Gossip (1994) and Idol Chatter
(1995).
Read Deborah Lawrenson's Q and A session to discover why she chose
Italy as the setting for The
Art of Falling, and what her plans are for her next novel.
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