Cressida Connolly
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Cressida Connolly

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'A writer who seems able to peer directly into the human heart' - John Preston 'The novels of Cressida Connolly are a wonderful discovery, a world of crumbling country houses, political and social complications, nostalgic, perceptively portrayed and beautifully written' - Country Life. Cressida Connolly's debut collection of short stories, The Happiest Days, won the PEN/MacMillan Silver Pen Award. The Rare & The Beautiful is her non-fiction account of the Bohemian Garman family, who were at the centre of British cultural life during the 1930s and 1940s; numbering Lucian Freud, Laurie Lee, Jacob Epstein and Peggy Guggenheim among their partners. My Former Heart, her first novel, was described in The Times as an: 'excellent multi-generational family saga'. The book examines many kinds of love: familial, erotic and of the natural world. My Former Heart was a Spectator Book the the Year. The bestselling After the Party was a Waterstone's Book of the Month and was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Award for Historial Fiction. It describes a woman's return to the England of the late 1930s and her growing involvement, through her sisters, in a murky political group. After an incident during a winter ball at a stately home, tragedy unfolds. Bad Relations was published in May 2022, to acclaim. The Times called it: 'a masterpiece. . .a ravishing novel. . .one of the most satisfying books you're likely to read this year'; The Observer called it: 'haunting and beautiful'; The Daily Mail compared Connolly's writing to Alice Munro and Tessa Hadley. Cressida Connolly reviews in many publications and has taught short story writing at Arvon, as well as the Cheltenham Literature Festival. She has interviewed writers, including Maya Angelou, Michael Ondaatje and Alice Munro. She has also appeared on radio and given talks about Ladybird books.
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