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Lucy Wadham


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Lucy Wadham is a British writer of crime and thriller novels, but her most widely reviewed work is her autobiographical account of her life in France.

Wadham was born in London in 1964 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. She has worked as a news assistant at the BBC Paris bureau since 1989. She is currently a freelance journalist and regularly contributes to The Independent, The Spectator, and The New Statesman. She lives in France with her four children.

Her first novel, 'Lost' (2000), a thriller set on Corsica was shortlisted for the Macallan Gold Dagger Award. The second novel, 'Castro's Dream' (2003), about the Basque terrorist movement, ETA is set in the Basque Country. Her latest book, 'The Secret Life of France,' is an autobiogra ...more

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Average rating: 3.5 · 885 ratings · 123 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors
The Secret Life of France
3.47 avg rating — 627 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions
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Heads and Straights: The Ci...
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Lost
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Greater Love
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“... zebra crossings were rather like Bosnia's "safe zones": places where, if you die, you may simply die with the knowledge that your killer was in the wrong.”
― Lucy Wadham, The Secret Life of France
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