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She. Alison MacLeod is a novelist and short story writer. Her latest novel is TENDERNESS (2021/22), a Book of the Year for The New York Times, The Spectator, and The Hindustan Times. and a Best Paperback of 2022 for the Sunday Times. Her novel UNEXPLODED was long-listed for the Man-Booker Prize for Fiction, adapted for BBC Radio 4, and named ...
REVIEWS ‘In her novel Tenderness, Alison MacLeod traces Lady Chatterley’s sources in the thickets of Lawrence’s own biography, then follows its tortured progress towards the light through the indecency trial.In doing so, she offers up two visions of what a novelist can be – the novelist as alchemist, turning the straw of his life into gold and not counting the cost, and the novelist as ...
A ‘Book of the Year’ for PASTE. ‘Alison MacLeod, the author of the Man Booker-listed novel Unexploded, seamlessly knits together essayistic and imaginative modes of writing in her second short-story collection All the Beloved Ghosts (Bloomsbury). Historical figures such as Sylvia Plath, Princess Diana, Anton Chekhov and Angelica Garnett ...
Alison Macleod. In 1987, aged 22, Alison MacLeod moved from her native Canada to England, supposedly for one year to read for an MA. The moved has proved rather more permanent: she is still here. Unexplored is set during the Second World War but was inspired by the ‘haunted atmosphere in London the day after the 2005 bombings’. Brighton ...
MacLeod was born in Montreal, Quebec of Nova Scotian parents, and was raised in Quebec, Michigan, and Nova Scotia. Her large family’s roots in Nova Scotia are several generations deep, and she visits Canada twice annually. She has lived in England since 1987, and is a citizen of both Canada and the U.K. Brighton, England has been her adopted ...
Canadian edition. ‘A book that brought me much delight this year was Unexploded by Alison MacLeod, the story of a married couple with a single child living in Brighton set in the early stages of the Second World War. Virginia Woolf makes a guest appearance, and the novel has Woolfian undertones, bringing to life as it does the struggle of a ...
Courses in Global Communications & Journalism, Danish School of Journalism & University of Aarhus, Denmark. Contact Alison. Email: amacleod@ka-pow.com. Main: 916-448-2162. Direct: 916-498-7730. Fax: 916-448-4923. 621 Capitol Mall, Suite 1900 Sacramento, CA 95814. 621 Capitol Mall, Suite 1900 Sacramento, CA 95814.
