I once heard English novelist Ian McEwan compare writing a novel to crossing an ocean in a canoe: you spend months, years without a horizon in sight. Way back in 1996, when I finally finished The Virgin Blue, I was so exhausted that I couldn't imagine ever writing another. And yet - now I have crossed that ocean 5 times. Like childbirth, you forget the pain afterwards.
So, here are my kids:
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Burning Bright (2007)
Two pre-teens bond with radical painter-poet William Blake in 18th-century London. |
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| The Lady and the Unicorn (2003) Love is blind among the weavers of a lavish set of medieval tapestries. |
Falling Angels (2001) Two families love and feud among the gravestones of London’s Highgate Cemetery. |
Girl With a Pearl Earring (1999) Modest Dutch maid becomes poster girl for the painter Johannes Vermeer. |
The Virgin Blue (1997) American woman searches for French ancestors and uncovers more than she’d bargained for. |
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Recently published Essays:
Essay on seeing Queen play at a 1977 concert, in The Show I’ll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience, edited by Sean Manning (2007)
“Peeking Over the Garden Wall,” in Women Reading William Blake, edited by Helen P. Bruder (2007)
“Lying to the Optician: The Reading Experience Rated,” in Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times, edited by Kevin Smokler (2005)