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Louise Dean

Founder

Louise Dean is the Founder and CEO of The Novelry. Louise has been longlisted for the Booker Prize, and was the winner of Le Prince Maurice Prize and the Betty Trask Prize, as well as being nominated for other awards and a finalist for the Costa Book Awards short story prize. Louise graduated from Cambridge University in History and worked in advertising in London, Hong Kong and New York before becoming an author. Her novels have been published by Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House worldwide. In 20177, the Bookseller announced a challenge for writers to join her to write their novels in ninety days, and The Novelry was born.

Louise Dean. Founder, author and Director of The Novelry.
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Becoming Strangers
This Human Season
The Idea of Love
The Old Romantic

Novels by

Louise Dean

Becoming Strangers

Becoming Strangers

After more than half a century of marriage, Dorothy and George are embarking on their first journey abroad together. Three decades younger, Jan and Annemieke are taking their last, as illness and incompatibility bring their unhappy union to an end. At first the luxury of a Caribbean resort is no match for the well-worn patterns of domestic life. Then the couples’ paths cross, and a series of surprises ensues—a disappearance and an assault—but also a tempest of passions, slights, misunderstandings and small awakenings that punctuate a week in which each pair struggles to come to terms with what’s been keeping them apart.

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This Human Season

This Human Season

It is November 1979. Kathleen’s son Sean has just been transferred to Belfast’s most notorious prison—Long Kesh, recently renamed the Maze. Kathleen knows that he will join the other prisoners on their non-cooperation protest, known as the Blanket. Rumors of a hunger strike are beginning to circulate. John Dunn has finished twenty years in the British Army. After three tours of Belfast, he’s found a girl and a house, and a job as a prison guard. In the weeks before Christmas, both Kathleen and John will find themselves in impossible situations. Both will have to find a way to survive when everything they love is in danger of being destroyed.

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The Idea of Love

The Idea of Love

Richard is the head of sales in Africa for a pharmaceutical company. He spends most of his time away on business, sleeping with other women and pushing psychiatric drugs on a developing market. Back in Provence, he and his wife, Valérie, no longer share a bed, and his teenage son, Maxence, is hearing voices. When Richard begins an affair with a neighbor, Rachel, he discovers that Valérie, too, is having an affair—with Rachel’s husband, Jeff. Suddenly, a routine trip to Africa to sell pharmaceuticals is more than he can handle and his life starts to implode as he realizes that the idea of love he has cherished is a mere illusion.

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The Old Romantic

The Old Romantic

Meet Ken. He’s obsessed with death, planning his own funeral and desperate to die in the bosom of his family. Unfortunately for Ken, that’s the last place his family wants him. His oldest son Nick left home over 20 years ago and reinvented himself. At 40, he has returned home to Kent in the South East of England and found happiness with his girlfriend Astrid and her 12-year-old daughter Laura, and he doesn’t want the old man to spoil things. He’s come a long way; he’s a professional, a country gent, a family man. But the past is coming back for Nick and it won’t let him be.

An Oprah Book Club Book of the Week.

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