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To travel is to meet yourself ... The sensory richness of France unlocks unexpected truths for those who travel there. A stressed-out publicist learns what getting away from it all really means. A divorcee's new happiness bewilders her friends. A woman's dream holiday rental turns to nightmare. Unhappy couples fantasise about new passion. A young girl is transformed by wonder on her first trip abroad. Pain strikes an older woman, in a landscape of impossible perfection. A widower finally understands the consolation of art, unlike the artist who has spent his life denying it. In these evocative…mehr

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To travel is to meet yourself ... The sensory richness of France unlocks unexpected truths for those who travel there. A stressed-out publicist learns what getting away from it all really means. A divorcee's new happiness bewilders her friends. A woman's dream holiday rental turns to nightmare. Unhappy couples fantasise about new passion. A young girl is transformed by wonder on her first trip abroad. Pain strikes an older woman, in a landscape of impossible perfection. A widower finally understands the consolation of art, unlike the artist who has spent his life denying it. In these evocative stories, set in various regions of France, flawed people are ambushed by hopes, regrets and longings. Inspired by the breathtaking beauty around them, can they change their lives?
Autorenporträt
Lorna Fergusson is an award-winning short story writer and novelist. Founder of Fictionfire Literary Consultancy, she is an experienced editor, speaker and writing coach, and has taught on various Oxford University writing programmes. She originally published her novel The Chase via Bloomsbury, before republishing it through Fictionfire Press. She has won an Ian St James Award and the Historical Novel Society's Short Story Award, as well as being shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, Pan Macmillan's Write Now Prize, the Mogford Prize (twice) and the Historical Novel Society's First Chapters prize. Her Historical Novel Society award-winning story 'Salt' appears in An Oxford Vengeance. She is developing one of the Mogford stories into a novel and is currently working on poetry, a collection of short stories and a book on mindset for writers. Born in Scotland, she is married with two sons and lives in Oxford, England. www.lornafergusson.com