Norah Lofts – now in British Library Women Writers series!

I realise I haven’t yet said that Lady Living Alone by Norah Lofts is out in the British Library Women Writers series – with another lovely cover:

It’s another quick turnaround – I only read it for the first time in March, and loved it so much that I instantly recommended it to the series. Here’s what I wrote at the time. I’m so glad the editorial team said yes, and that fans of Norah Lofts’s historical fiction will be able to discover her under a different mode. It starts out as a witty, fun domestic novel with a delightfully eccentric heroine – hard to beat ‘Penelope Shadow’ for excellent character naming. It becomes something much darker and more page-turning and unexpected.

I’m very excited to see how this one goes down!

9 thoughts on “Norah Lofts – now in British Library Women Writers series!

    • November 5, 2024 at 4:34 pm
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      It is such a privilege and joy!

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  • November 5, 2024 at 4:00 pm
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    I’m soooo thrilled! I love Norah Lofts, although admittedly (1) I’m almost entirely familiar with her historical novels (I seem to remember reading something that was almost a thriller) and (2) I read her work years & years ago. I’ve always thought she was a rather under rated writer, for the reasons you discussed in your posts. I’ll definitely be looking out for Lady Living Alone!

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    • November 5, 2024 at 4:34 pm
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      Brilliant! I haven’t read her historical fiction – or anything except this one novel – but definitely keen to read more of her domestic thriller stuff.

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  • November 5, 2024 at 4:10 pm
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    My grandmother LOVED Norsh Lofts

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    • November 5, 2024 at 4:33 pm
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      Lovely! She definitely needs to be discovered by a new generation.

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  • November 6, 2024 at 6:24 pm
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    I remember how much my grandmother loved her books: she had many good favourite writers on her shelves!

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  • November 11, 2024 at 7:48 pm
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    Sadly, BL isn’t sending me these anymore. I checked, but I don’t think it’s available yet in the U. S. I’ll keep looking for it, because I have almost everything printed in this series, and I’d like to continue collecting them.

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