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Lost Property (Beatty Novel)
''Lost Property'' is the third novel of Laura Beatty, first published in 2019 by Atlantic Books. Plot introduction A writer, despairs over London so leaves with her lover Rupert, in a clapped out camper van through France, to the Mediterranean, Italy the Balkans and finally to the Greek island of Chios where they help a refugee camp before returning to Britain via Crete. On the way she meets 10,000 years of civilization with many historical figures from Joan of Arc to James Joyce as she questions them on her spiritual journey through Europe. Reception Christobel Kent in ''The Guardian'' praises the novel, 'this shifting, unsure quality, made luminous with an extraordinary descriptive brilliance, emerges as the book's strength. The narrative is highly wrought but never laboured, and always humanly tentative, as a quest should be. The last thing Lost Property's narrator wants is to be any kind of authority. Rather, she is a receiver, a channel for other voices, other eyes. She stum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Beatty
Laura Mary Catherine Beatty (née Keen; born 1 May 1963) is a writer awarded the Authors' Club First Novel Award for her 2008 novel '' Pollard'', also shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize. She has also written two biographies, the first about Lillie Langtry which contained the first publication of correspondence between Lillie and her lover Arthur Jones. Personal life She is the daughter of Charles Keen and Lady Priscilla Mary Rose Curzon, eldest daughter of Edward Curzon, 6th Earl Howe. Her brother is actor Will Keen (father of actress Dafne Keen) and her sister is poet Alice Oswald. On 29 September 1990, she married the Hon. Nicholas Beatty, son of David Field Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty. They have one son, David Brin Charles Beatty (born 1992). Bibliography Non-fiction *''Lillie Langtry, Manner, Masks and Morals'' (1999, Chatto & Windus) *''Anne Boleyn, The Wife Who Lost Her Head'' (2001, Short Books, for children aged 10+) Fiction *'' Pollard'' (2008, Chatto & Windus) *'' D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |