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Liz Jensen


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Oxfordshire, The United Kingdom
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Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy


Liz Jensen was born in Oxfordshire, the daughter of a Danish father and an Anglo-Moroccan mother. She spent two years as a journalist in the Far East before joining the BBC, first as a journalist, then as a TV and radio producer. She then moved to France where she worked as a sculptor began her first novel, Egg Dancing, which was published in 1995. Back in London she wrote Ark Baby (1998) which was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award, The Paper Eater (2000), and War Crimes for the Home (2002) which was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She has two children and shares her life with the Danish essayist, travel writer and novelist Carsten Jensen.

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Book Talk – ‘Your Wild and Precious Life’

Join us for an evening where filmmaker and anthropologist Adam Paaske talks to Anglo-British novelist Liz Jensen about her memoir ‘Your Wild and Precious Life’, the story of how a mother rebuilt herself, reoriented her life and rediscovered the enchantment of the living world.

Liz Jensen’s son, a zoologist, conservationist and ecological activist, was twenty-five when he collapsed and died unexpect

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My Dirty Little Book of Sto...
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War Crimes for the Home
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Egg Dancing
3.37 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 1996 — 10 editions
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“Everyone said that one day I was going to have a big accident, an accident to end all accidents. One day you might look up and see a kid falling from the sky. That would be me.”
― Liz Jensen, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
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“Hangovers are a vivid form of vengeance. Last night my apartment became the venue for a small, introverted chardonnay festival. A melancholy choir of Bulgarians provided the entertainment, via a set of headphones that ended up irredeemably tangled beneath the bed. Part of me just watched. The other part was in charge.”
― Liz Jensen, The Rapture
tags: alcohol, break-ups, hangover, self-pity
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“The thought of losing him again kills me. This is of course a figure of speech, I will remain alive, but I will not know happiness.”
― Liz Jensen, The Uninvited
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