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Lucy Ashe

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LUCY ASHE is the author of CLARA & OLIVIA (Magpie, Oneworld publications), published as THE DANCE OF THE DOLLS in the US (Union Square & Co). Her second novel is THE SLEEPING BEAUTIES.

CLARA & OLIVIA was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Historical Dagger 2024.

She trained at the Royal Ballet School for eight years, first as a Junior Associate and then at White Lodge. She has a diploma in dance teaching with the British Ballet Organisation.

She studied English Literature at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, while continuing to dance and perform. She then took a PGCE teaching qualification and became an English teacher.

Her poetry and short stories have been published in a number of literary journals and she was shortlisted for the 2020
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Average rating: 3.69 · 1,218 ratings · 292 reviews · 4 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Dance of the Dolls

3.65 avg rating — 997 ratings — published 2023 — 11 editions
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The Sleeping Beauties

3.78 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 2024 — 7 editions
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The Model Patient

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Lucy Ashe and 1 other person liked Alison Taylor's review of The Model Patient:
The Model Patient by Lucy Ashe
"The Model Patient follows Evelyn, who is newly married to Henry and struggling to adapt to her role as a traditional wife. Although this life feels unfulfilling, she is desperate to make her marriage work. Plagued by anxiety and disturbing nightmares" Read more of this review »
The Dance of the Dolls by Lucy Ashe
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Immersive, ballet heavy, atmospheric! "
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Wild East by Ashley Hickson-Lovence
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A compelling read, very moving. The characters stayed with me long after finishing the book. I'm an English teacher and I'd definitely recommend this to my high school students. Not only is the verse form beautifully rhythmic and engaging, the themes ...more
The Model Patient by Lucy Ashe
"The Model Patient is a taut and atmospheric psychological novel that lingers long after you’ve closed the final page. Set in 1960s London, it captures the quiet intensity of therapy sessions where Evelyn Westbrook, a former model turned reluctant hou" Read more of this review »
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The Sleeping Beauties by Lucy Ashe
"Perhaps even more exquisite than Lucy Ashe’s juxtaposition of the decadent beauty of the Sadler’s Wells ballet against the horror of World War II, and her ability to weave a compelling thriller within that historical context, are the unexpected femin" Read more of this review »
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“Without pain, how do we know we are working hard enough? I said that to Clara once and she laughed at me. She didn’t understand what I meant.”
Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls

“I thought that this mad life you all live, always on the edge of pain and exhaustion, was somehow worth it. It was glamorous, beautiful, justified by art.”
Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls

“Once war was over, everyone wanted to find some normality, to settle and fix their disordered homes. The reality, of course, was that it was impossible. Not with rationing and homes bombed and fathers not yet returned.”
Lucy Ashe, The Sleeping Beauties

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“Surely you would like to be immortalised in art, fixed forever in perfection?”
Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls

“I thought that this mad life you all live, always on the edge of pain and exhaustion, was somehow worth it. It was glamorous, beautiful, justified by art.”
Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls

“Without pain, how do we know we are working hard enough? I said that to Clara once and she laughed at me. She didn’t understand what I meant.”
Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls

“He imagines dancing with her, the two of them arm in arm under the stars. Silent, of course, but that is no matter. It is better that way. She is a dancing doll, his Coppélia, created at last.”
Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls

“Once war was over, everyone wanted to find some normality, to settle and fix their disordered homes. The reality, of course, was that it was impossible. Not with rationing and homes bombed and fathers not yet returned.”
Lucy Ashe, The Sleeping Beauties

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