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Elizabeth Lancaster

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Born

Sydney, Australia

Website

https://www.elizabethlancaster.com.au

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Memoir, Biography, Nonfiction

Member Since

January 2019

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Elizabeth is a Sydney-based author. She began her working life as an occupational therapist but changed direction after attending a writing course in New York City, while living there with her husband and two children. After a shock diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, writing would provide a lifeline.

Elizabeth’s first book, Marzipan and Magnolias, depicting her complex relationship with her idiosyncratic mother, and the onset of MS, won the inaugural Finch Memoir Prize.

Her second book, Bounty: A Memoir of Friendship, MS and the Dog That Changed Everything, takes her story in an unexpected direction. When a headstrong rescue dog storms into her life, he pulls her back into the world. Bounty leads her to a hidden dog-park community where her o ...more

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Average rating: 4.25 · 44 ratings · 21 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	Bounty: a memoir of friendship, MS and the dog that changed everything 4.95 avg rating — 19 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
	Marzipan and Magnolias 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2012 — 5 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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London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth

by Patrick Radden Keefe

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Turn Right at the Rainbow follows the author and her husband on a year-long quest to leave London, where they have lived in the same house for thirty-odd years, and buy a home in the countryside. It sounds like a straightforward proposition. What foll ...more
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