If You’re Writing A Novel, Start in the Middle.
Writer Louise Dean was born in 1970 in Hastings, England and studied History at the University of Cambridge. She is the award-winning Man Booker listed author of four novels published worldwide.
As well as writing novels, Louise Dean has been a creative writing course tutor since 2009 and is the founder of The Novelry which hothouses story writing talent preparing writers to be published. She has lived and worked in London, Hong Kong, New York and the South of France and is now living in Kent.
Her first novel, Becoming Strangers (2004), a warm-hearted dark comedy about a group of people escaping difficulties at home on vacation in Barbados and finding friendship there, won The Society of Authors Betty Trask Prize. It was nominated for The Guardian First Book Prize, the Dublin International Literary Prize, and the Man Booker Prize 2004. The Observer names it as one of the best four books of 2004. It won Le Prince Maurice Prize 2006.
It was followed by This Human Season (2005), a tale of The Troubles in Northern Ireland set in 1979-1980, it tells of the impact of the civil war on an Irish Catholic family and that of a former British soldier who has become a prison officer at Long Kesh. It was reviewed internationally to warm praise and described by The Telegraph as ‘astonishing’ and by the New York Times as a ‘pitch-perfect’ second novel.
Her next novel The Idea of Love (2007) was set in Provence and described the unravelling lives of a group of ex-pats, focussing on the misadventures of an Englishman working for a pharmaceutical company as a salesman in Africa. Published by Penguin Books, it was described by The Guardian as a ‘dark and witty’ novel and by The Independent as ‘a wonderfully complex and original novel about desire, disappointment and mental illness.’
The Old Romantic (2010) told the story of an older man’s attempt to ingratiate himself with the family he quit and is a comedy of manners set in the South East of England. It was chosen by The Oprah Book Club and was described by the Telegraph as ‘a novel about coming home and finding your voice.’
Louise Dean returned to England in 2007 to live in Kent with her three children. She has appeared at many festivals and on the television and radio. She is the founder of The Novelry and guides and coaches aspiring, and published novelists with a range of tutored creative writing courses online and in person at the writers retreats offered by The Novelry.
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