Beyond Laughter: The Marie Corelli Story

by Julie Harris

Beyond Laughter is a fictional biography of the life of Marie Corelli, Victorian author, who in her time, outsold HG Wells. Queen Victoria was a huge fan. Julie became interested in Corelli in the mid 1980s when a professor handed her a copy of A Romance of Two Worlds and said, ‘I think you should read this’. In 1995, whilst visiting England, Julie went to Stratford upon Avon with her musician-therapist friend, John Richardson. Visiting Corelli’s house, Mason Croft, was like stepping back in time. John kept the receptionist busy while Julie attempted to go upstairs and into Corelli’s bedroom but she was stopped halfway up the staircase by an impenetrable wall of such devastating sadness and loneliness she literally ran from the house in tears and swore she’d never go back. She wrote Beyond Laughter on her return to Australia.

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About the author

Julie Harris is the Australian author of Anna's Gold, The Site, No Exit, The Diamond Factory, Beyond Laughter, An Absence of Angels, and many more. She has been published in Australia, USA, UK, Germany and France.
Her writing, which crosses most genres, has been compared to Harper Lee and Jack London.
Of one of her books, The Longest Winter, best selling author Bryce Courtenay has declared, "I'd give five years of my life to write a book like that".
Julie lives with her husband in a small country town on the Darling Downs in Queensland, Australia.