5 Books by Joan Lingard
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Overview: Lingard was born in Edinburgh, in the old mile but grew up in Belfast in Holland gardens where she lived until she was 18. She attended Strandtown Primary and then got a scholarship into Bloomfied Collegiate.
Lingard has written novels for both adults and children. She is probably most famous for the teenage-aimed Kevin and Sadie series, which have sold over one million copies and have been reprinted many times since.
Lingard received the prestigious West German award the ‘Buxtehuder Bulle’ in 1986 for Across the Barricades. Lingard was awarded an MBE in 1998 for services to children’s literature.
She has three daughters and five grandchildren, and now lives in Edinburgh with her Canadian husband.
Genre: Historical Fiction | Children’s | Young Adult
After You’ve Gone
Willa, a polite and respectable young woman, lives in a small Edinburgh flat with her baby and mother-in-law. Her husband, Tommy, a navy officer, is away on a year-long world cruise with the Special Service Squadron. Struggling to cope with the tedium and oppression of life without him, Willa’s only escape is through the books she reads. Through regular visits to the library she meets a man with a mutual fascination, Richard Fitzwilliam. Richard, a charming and intelligent young writer, is an exciting new addition to Willa’s life. Frequent letters from Tommy fail to evoke the emotion that she now feels for Richard. As their relationship blossoms, Willa must endeavor to keep her new love a secret.
Beautifully written and emotionally charged, After You’ve Gone is a fascinating account of a woman torn between a husband and another man in 1920s society
Encarnita’s Journey
It is 1920 and the beautiful village of Yegen, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, awakens to a new year and two events that are to change the pueblo for ever: the birth of Encarnita, a beautiful dark-eyed girl; and the arrival of the British writer Gerald Brenan and his string of artistic and literary visitors, including Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington.
Growing up in Yegen, and taught English by Brenan, the beautiful Encarnita longs for the world outside the small pueblo – the stories Brenan and his friends tell her spark her imagination. And so begins her long journey, from the Sierra to Edinburgh, where eighty years after her birth, she will have one last story to tell. Exquisitely written, Encarnita’s Journey is a tale as beautiful as its Spanish setting, with touches of true insight into the lives of its literati cast and dark-eyed heroine.
Natasha’s Will
Natasha’s story is set against the background of the Russian Revolution as she and her family flee persecution. Her story is dramatically and cleverly linked with the present as her heirs search for her will. The will can only be found through a trail of literary clues from classic children’s books.
Tell the Moon to Come Out
It is 1939. Spain is shattered by civil war. Nick’s father left home to fight on the losing side three years ago; he never returned. Now Nick has gone after him crossing illegally into Spain, trying to get information.
The Sign of the Black Dagger
One day, Will and Lucy’s dad just … vanishes.They have no idea why he’s disappeared until a creepy stranger reveals their dad was keeping a BIG secret. Then there’s the second clue: an old diary they find hidden in the walls of their Royal Mile house, with a sinister black dagger on it. Will and Lucy must solve a mystery that’s over two hundred years old if they want to find their dad and bring him home. But can they find the answers in time to rescue him?
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