Paris, 1928. Avant-garde Paris is buzzing with the latest ideas in art,
music and literature from artists such as Ford Madox Ford and Zelda Fitzgerald.
Lucia, the talented and ambitious daughter of controversial genius James Joyce,
is making her name as a dancer. But when Lucia falls passionately in love with
budding writer (and fellow Irish expat) Samuel Beckett he is banned from the
Joyce family home. 1934. Her life in tatters, Lucia is sent to pioneering
psychoanalyst Carl Jung. For years she has kept quiet. Now she decides to speak.
Profoundly moving and stunningly written, The Joyce Girl brings to light the
untold tale of Lucia Joyce. It will entrance and educate you. You will fall in
love with this compelling woman, but she will break your heart too.
Author Biography
As the daughter of an impoverished, struggling poet, Annabel Abbs spent her
childhood in circumstances not dissimilar to Lucia's – travelling and moving
school/home/language with a ‘present-but-absent’ father fixated on his
inner world. Annabel grew up in Bristol, Wales and Sussex, before studying
English Literature at the University of East Anglia. Her debut novel, The Joyce
Girl, won the 2015 Impress Prize and was longlisted for the 2015 Bath Novel
Award and the 2015 Caledonia Novel Award. She is now completing her second
novel, based on the life of Frieda von Richthofen, wife and muse to D.H.
Lawrence. Before Annabel began writing, she spent 15 years running a marketing
consultancy where her clients included Reuters, Sony and the FT. She lives in
London and Sussex with her husband and four children. If you'd like to get in
touch with Annabel… @annabelabbs facebook.com/annabel.abbs @The_JoyceGirl
#JoyceGirl
