‘An accomplished novel by a great writer’ Patrick, 50, Professor of American Studies, womaniser – he has an ex-wife and two children, an ex-mistress and a third child almost the same age as his second, and a mature student ex-lover who’s filed a complaint of sexual harassment against him – is only the third person… Continue reading…
‘Dawson’s immediately engrossing narrative opens in the ICU in the aftermath of the surgery and it is clear that the recipient of Drew’s heart is someone not everyone would consider deserving of a second chance……Dawson navigates this territory with a freshness and wit that belie a seasoned novelist. In 200 short pages, she seamlessly elides… Continue reading…
As they attempt to reach out, you often hear the older generations baffled by the decisions of the younger. Such endeavours to connect go unnoticed by the Smartphone generation, with their Monster energy drinks and fanatical need to include the word “like” into every sentence. A gulf of years and accepted taboos split them apart,… Continue reading…
Angela Robertson, the organiser writes of the week Jill spent teaching in Marrakesh: ‘I have to say I was very impressed by how much you packed in and made people work during the lessons, while at the same time allowing them to have lots of time to write. You are also an excellent mentor and… Continue reading…
‘Lucky Bunny (Sceptre), Jill Dawson’s rip-roaring story of an East End girl made good by being defiantly bad; hilarious, poignant and exquisitely written.’ ‘Dawson’s engaging seventh novel (after Trick of the Light) chronicles the exploits of “Queenie” Dove, a highly intelligent Depression-era child from a family of grifters. As a child in London, Queenie acknowledges her fledgling… Continue reading…
Jill Dawson was invited to take part in the Galle Literary Festival in 2011. The trip was supported by the British Council ‘My Galle festival experience was wonderful, Sri Lanka itself (my first visit) was enthralling. Everyone, from the Sri Lankan air stewardess in her kingfisher colours who greeted me at the airport with my name on… Continue reading…
What do people know of the poet Rupert Brooke? That W.B Yeats described him as ‘the handsomest young man in England’? That he was part of a circle that included Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, the painter Augustus John, James and Lytton Strachey? That he died young, on his way to Gallipoli and was thereafter… Continue reading…