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Lily Dunn

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Memoir, Contemporary, Nonfiction

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Lily Dunn is an author, mentor and educator. Her first novel was published by Portobello Books and her memoir about the legacy of her father’s various addictions will be published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in March 2022. She has personal essays in Granta, Litro, Hinterland, MIRonline and The Real Story, and is a regular writer for Aeon magazine. She is in her final writing up year of her doctorate at Birkbeck, University of London, and is interested in how to integrate the therapeutic power of writing with literature. She is editor of A Wild and Precious Life: a collection of stories and poetry from writers in recovery, published by Unbound in May 2021. She teaches creative writing at Bath Spa University and co-runs London Lit Lab.

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	Sins of My Father: A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling 3.85 avg rating — 253 ratings — published 2023 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadowing the Sun 3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Wild and Precious Life: A Recovery Anthology by Lily Dunn (Goodreads Author), Zoe Gilbert 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Garden Among Fires: A Lockdown Anthology by Marina Benjamin (Editor), Amy Liptrot (Goodreads Author), Katherine May 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Into being: The radical craft of memoir and its power to transform 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Interpreter of Maladies

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Lily Dunn said: " I love the first story, the others haven't matched that for me yet. ...more "

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The First Person and Other Stories

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“And do you call yours a divine discontent?'
'Yes. I don't care about its divinity. But damn your happiness! So long as life's full, it doesn't matter whether it's happy or not. I'm afraid your happiness would bore me.”
― D. H. Lawrence, SONS AND LOVERS

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