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Elizabeth Lancaster

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Born

Sydney, Australia

Website

https://www.elizabethlancaster.com.au

Genre

Memoir, Biography, Nonfiction

Member Since

January 2019

URL

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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: 3.93 · 30 ratings · 9 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	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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Turn Right at the Rainbow: A Diary of Househunting, Happenstance & Home

by Roz Morris (Goodreads Author)

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Elizabeth Lancaster and 1 other person liked Jennifer Severn's review of Bounty: a memoir of friendship, MS and the dog that changed everything: "Get this, from the intro, and tell me you're not hooked on Lancaster's memoir already: I thought I saw Emma today. When I was leaving the park around sunset, there was a woman ahead of me, rounding the corner into the lane. As she glanced back over he " Read more of this review »
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Elizabeth Lancaster and 4 other people liked Apple Gidley's review of Turn Right at the Rainbow: A Diary of Househunting, Happenstance & Home: "Having led a nomadic existence, and therefore having house hunted through through many countries, although not always to purchase, I read Roz Morris’s latest memoir out of curiosity, and because I know she is a writer able to capture emotion with sky" Read more of this review »
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Elizabeth Lancaster made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Merge my books to my author page topic " Please could you merge my memoir, Bounty: a memoir of friendship, MS and the dog that changed everything ISBN: Paperback: 978-3-98832-208-1 Could you pl ...more "
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Hilarious, tinged with moments of real anguish. My heart bleeds for the junior doctor who needed support and found none. Switching between the present day and his reflections on his time as an obstetrics registrar, Adam Kay has mined his experience o ...more
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