The Great Lover is a fictional novel based upon the life and loves of the WWI poet Rupert Brooke. Brooke was part of the influential artistic circles of the day, mixing with the likes of Virginia Stephen (Woolf) and Lytton Strachey, and ringleader of his own influential group of socialites at Cambridge - many of them members of the Fabian Society - who became known as the Neo-Pagans/5(13). · As a starting point for a novel, however, the rumour is irresistible, and Dawson's The Great Lover begins with a fictional letter from Brooke's putative www.doorway.ru: Joanna Briscoe. · Jill Dawson is the author of Trick of the Light, Magpie, Fred and Edie, which was short-listed for the Whitbread Novel Award and the Orange Prize, Wild Boy, Watch Me Disappear, which was long-listed for the Orange Prize, The Great Lover, and Lucky Bunny. She has edited six anthologies of short stories and poetry, and has written for numerous UK publications, including The Guardian, The Brand: HarperCollins e-books.
The Great Lover is a fictional novel based upon the life and loves of the WWI poet Rupert Brooke. Brooke was part of the influential artistic circles of the day, mixing with the likes of Virginia Stephen (Woolf) and Lytton Strachey, and ringleader of his own influential group of socialites at Cambridge - many of them members of the Fabian Society - who became known as the Neo-Pagans. Renowned. Review Giveaway: The Great Lover by Jill Dawson. "Rupert's true heart beats only on paper." April, Ninety year old Nell Golightly receives a surprising letter from Tahiti. A 67 year old woman would like to know something of her father, whom she never met. Somehow her letter finds its way to Nell, who worked as a maid, many years ago, at. Review: The Great Lover by Jill Dawson Joanna Briscoe enjoys a daring novelisation of Rupert Brooke's trysts and travels to Tahiti.
“A brilliant, complicated man is the centre of Jill Dawson’s The Great Lover, and while she draws extensively on historical records of Brooke and his contemporaries, it is her decisions as a novelist that make this account of his life fascinating as well as faithful The story that emerges is strong, satisfying, and memorable.”. Jill Dawson is the author of Trick of the Light, Magpie, Fred and Edie, which was short-listed for the Whitbread Novel Award and the Orange Prize, Wild Boy, Watch Me Disappear, which was long-listed for the Orange Prize, The Great Lover, and Lucky Bunny. She has edited six anthologies of short stories and poetry, and has written for numerous UK publications, including The Guardian, The Times, Vogue, and Harper's Bazaar. The Great Lover is another of Jill Dawsons ‘fictionalised’ accounts of real lives, following her novel Fred and Edie, based on the story of Edith Thompson, contraversially hanged for murder in the s (which I also greatly enjoyed.
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