3 Novels by Louise Dean
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Overview: Louise Dean has won the Society of Authors Betty Trask Prize, Le Prince Maurice Prize, been nominated for The Guardian First Book Prize, and longlisted for the Man Booker and IMPAC. Her first book ‘Becoming Strangers’ was named one of The Observer’s top four books of the year, and her most recent book ‘The Old Romantic’ an Oprah Book of the Week.
Louise has taught for the Arvon Foundation on novel writing and short stories and spoken at Hay on Wye, Brisbane, Galle and Edinburgh Festivals.She has appeared on BBC News, Radio 4, Woman’s Hour with Jenni Murray and Mariella Frostrup amongst others. Louise was educated at Cambridge University and has lived and worked in the USA and France.
She lives in Kent with her three children.
Genre: Fiction > Romance
The Old Romantic
It’s been decades since Nick cast off his impossible, contentious, embarrassingly working-class parents: gruff, stingy, explosive Ken, and Pearl, who seemed to revert to a primal state of nature after a divorce that both of them managed to blame on Nick. Enjoying the life of the country gentleman that he’s made for himself with impeccably turned-out Astrid and her daughter, Laura, Nick has kept only the slenderest connection to his brother, Dave, who’s stuck with the role of ambassador in a family that’s long settled into cold war. Then Ken decides that the year of his death has arrived, and kicks off an ill-conceived quest to reunite his family before he meets his fate. Bringing to this tinderbox the park it needs, Louise Dean, award-winning author of Becoming Strangers and several more acclaimed novels, sends up the whole clan, each of them fatally flawed, yet saved by hidden grace, and illuminates their clashes of generation, gender, class, and temperament, in a riotous, compassionate, and truly memorable family saga.
The Idea of Love
When a cluster of expatriate families converges on Provence, it seems as if sunshine, good wine, and an endless round of parties will make for a better life. Then Richard, a pharmaceutical salesman married to sexy Valérie, lands a plum assignment: introducing antidepressants into Africa, virgin territory for the drug industry and for the womanizing he has honed to a science. And idealistic Rachel finds herself Africa-bound too, in search of a little brother or sister for her daughter, Maud, and following some deeper longing she can’t seem to quell.
For both Richard and Rachel, the excursions will lead them into their own private heart of darkness, and will bring shock waves home to their little Eden, unsettling the very idea of love.
This Human Season
It’s not personal, he says. But that’s a lie in a place where everything is personal, and a matter of life and death too.
This Human Season is award-winning Man Booker longlisted author Louise Dean’s second novel set in Belfast, Ireland, during The Troubles of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. It was widely praised by critics internationally and described as ‘astonishing’ by reviewers from The Daily Telegraph in the United Kingdom to BookForum in the United States.
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. Rumours 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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