Lucy Ashe
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The Dance of the Dolls
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2023
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11 editions
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The Sleeping Beauties
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2024
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7 editions
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The Ghastling: Book Twelve
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The Model Patient
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"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"
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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 | |
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"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"
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Lucy Ashe
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The Eights
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Readers' Favorite Debut Novel
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Opening Round
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2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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"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"
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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.”
― The Dance of the Dolls
― 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.”
― The Dance of the Dolls
― 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.”
― The Sleeping Beauties
― The Sleeping Beauties
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“Surely you would like to be immortalised in art, fixed forever in perfection?”
― The Dance of the Dolls
― 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.”
― The Dance of the Dolls
― 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.”
― The Dance of the Dolls
― 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.”
― The Dance of the Dolls
― 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.”
― The Sleeping Beauties
― The Sleeping Beauties
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