Elizabeth Buchan, née Oakleigh-Walker (born 21 May 1948) is a British writer of non-fiction and fiction books since 1985. In 1994, her novel ''Consider the Lily'' won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the

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, and she was elected its eighteenth Chairman (1995–1997). Her novel, ''Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman'' (2001), has been made into a television film for CBS.

Biography

Personal life

Elizabeth Mary Oakleigh-Walker was born on 21 May 1948 in Guildford, Surrey, England, the daughter of Major Peter Oakleigh-Walker and Eleanor Mary Peters. In the 1970s, she obtained a double degree in English and History at the

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at Canterbury. On 20 April 1974, she married Benjamin William Alastair Buchan (b. 1948), grandson of the novelist and politician John Buchan. They have one son, Adam Peter Alastair Buchan (b. 1980), and a daughter, Eleanor Rose Buchan (b. 1983).

Writing career

She started working as a blurb writer for

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. After the publication of her third novel, she became a full-time writer. She lives in

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. Her short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in magazines. She has been a judge for Whitbread (now Costa) Awards, and has chaired the Betty Trask and Desmond Elliot Awards and reviews for the Sunday Times. She is also a patron of the Guildford Book Festival and the National Academy of Writing.

Bibliography

Game book

* ''Ice Dancer'' (1985)

Collections

* ''A Dashing Young Tiger Named Jack'' (poems) (1987) (with Scoular Anderson)

Non-fiction

* ''Beatrix Potter: The Story of the Creator of Peter Rabbit'' (1987)

Single novels

* ''Daughters of the Storm'' (1988) * ''Light of the Moon'' (1991) * ''Consider the Lily'' (1993) * ''Perfect Love'' (1995) * ''Against Her Nature'' (1997) * ''Secrets of the Heart'' (2000) * ''The Good Wife'' (2003) ''The Good Wife Strikes Back'' (US title) * ''That Certain Age'' (2004) a.k.a. ''Everything She Thought She Wanted'' (US title) * ''Separate Beds'' (2010) * ''Daughters'' (2012) * ''I Can't Begin to Tell You'' (2014) * ''The New Mrs Clifton'' (2016) * ''The Museum of Broken Promises'', Corvus (2019), * ''Two Women in Rome'', Corvus (2021)

The Two Mrs Lloyd Series

# ''Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman'' (2001) # ''The Second Wife'' (2006) a.k.a. ''Wives Behaving Badly'' (US title)

References and sources

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