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Michelle Lawson

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Born in the English Midlands, Michelle Lawson now divides her time between Devon, the French Pyrenees and less-familiar corners of Central-Eastern Europe such as Western Ukraine. Her interest in how place can be a portal to understanding ourselves permeates all of her work, both fiction and non-fiction.
Michelle’s fiction career has been inspired by her observations of people and place. Themes of manipulation and vulnerability, and the difficulty of separating a dream from reality, inspired her debut novel, The Wicked Game, set in the intriguing city of Kathmandu.
Michelle’s interest in migration, the search for a new life abroad and the gaps left by family secrets have inspired her non-fiction writing. An academic study of British incomers
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Sunsets, sloths and dirt roads: Highlights of Costa Rica


‘How do you like Costa Rica?’
I told him that I thought it was a beautiful country… The mountains, I said … I told him I thought the people in Costa Rica were extremely pleasant … It was a green country, I said.

Paul Theroux, The Old Patagonian Express (1979)

Why visit Costa Rica? For me, it goes back to a well-thumbed copy of The Old Patagonian Express. Paul Theroux’s journey from Massachusetts to

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“Severe depression feels like being a wingless bird in a dark,closed box with no way out. Hopeless!!”
Michelle Lawson

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