The Ghost of Lily Painter by Caitlin Davies

In 2015, her non-fiction book Downstream: a history and celebration of swimming the River Thames was published. She returned to England and published a memoir about her experiences, called Place of Reeds.Ĭaitlin is the author of six novels Jamestown Blues (1996), Black Mulberries (2008), Friends Like Us (2009), The Ghost of Lily Painter (2011) a fictionalised account of two Edwardian baby farmers, Family Likeness (2013) which draws on the experiences of mixed race UK children born to African-American soldiers during World War Two, as well as the story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, Daisy Belle: Swimming Champion of the World, based on the life of Agnes Beckwith, was published in 2018.Ĭaitlin wrote a book on the bathing ponds and lido on Hampstead Heath, Taking the Waters: a swim around Hampstead Heath and a social history of Camden Lock (2013). Although born in England, Caitlin has been associated with Botswana since 1990 where she worked as a teacher and a freelance journalist. She has given talks to the Friends on Touched and The Seduction and with Tracy Chevalier on Reader I Married Him, a collection of short stories inspired by Jane Eyre.Ĭaitlin Davies is an English author, journalist and teacher. Her first novel, Mothers and Other Lovers, won a Betty Trask Award in 1993, and her third, Sleep with Me, was adapted for television. Joanna Briscoe has written four novels and several short stories and has worked as a freelance journalist. He also writes crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. His new novel Elizabeth Finch will be published in 2022. He also selected and introduced a collection of John Cheever stories titled A Vision of the World. His book The Man in the Red Coat was published in the UK in 2019 and in the US in 2020.

His other recent publications include Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art and The Only Story. Julian Barnes is the author of several books of stories, essays, a translation of Alphonse Daudet’s In the Land of Pain, and numerous novels, including the 2011 Man Booker Prize winning novel The Sense of an Ending and the acclaimed The Noise of Time.

The Ghost of Lily Painter by Caitlin Davies