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Lee Langley


Born
Calcutta, India
Genre
Historical Fiction


Award-winning novelist and travel-writer, Lee Langley was born in Calcutta in the late 1930s, of Scottish parents, and she spent most of her early childhood there. Her parents separated when she was 4, and she spent the next 6 years travelling through India with her mother, where she got caught up in the Indian independence riots. Her family returned to the UK as feelings rose higher against the British. Lee Langley has since written of a sense of loss and exile from a place that she had loved as a child. She won the Writers’ Guild Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Lee Langley has also written film scripts and has adapted novels for TV. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is also an active committee member of the ...more

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Average rating: 3.6 · 404 ratings · 63 reviews · 27 distinct works • Similar authors
Butterfly's Shadow
3.68 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 2012 — 12 editions
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Distant Music: A Novel
3.43 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions
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Persistent Rumours
3.82 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions
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House In Pondicherry
3.50 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions
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Changes of address: A novel
3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1987 — 8 editions
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A Conversation on the Quai ...
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False pretences
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From the Broken Tree
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Dead Center
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1969 — 7 editions
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The dying art: A novel
2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions
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“But Daisy saw the colour ebb from his face, the light leave his eyes, and reached him first, and it was Daisy who caught him as he fell.”
― Lee Langley, Persistent Rumours
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