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Annabel Abbs

Frieda: A Novel of the Real Lady Chatterley

By Annabel Abbs - Published 2018

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In her first novel, The Joyce Girl, Annabel Abbs explored life in the shadows of literary fame. In her second, we are again ...Read Review

The Joyce Girl

By Annabel Abbs - Published 2016 Published 2020

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Biographical Fiction

In Zurich in 1934, Lucia, the emotionally frail daughter of iconic Irish author James Joyce, is undergoing the “talking cure” with Carl Jung, trying ...Read Review

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Annabel Abbs

Frieda: A Novel of the Real Lady Chatterley

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