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Louise Lawrence

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born

June 05, 1943 in Leatherhead, Surrey, The United Kingdom

gender

female

website

http://louiselawrence.net/louiselawrencesi.html

genre

Young Adult, Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Elizabeth Holden, better known by her pen name Louise Lawrence, is an English science fiction author, acclaimed during the 1970s and 1980s.

Lawrence was born in Leatherhead, Surrey, England, in 1943. She became fascinated with Wales at a young age, and has set many of her novels there. She left school early on to become an assistant librarian. She married and had the first of her three children in 1963. Her departure from the library, she recalls, gave her the potential to turn toward writing: "Deprived of book-filled surroundings, I was bound to write my own."

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Books by Louise Lawrence

Average rating: 3.83 · 567 ratings · 85 reviews · 25 distinct works

	Children of the Dust 3.93 avg rating — 344 ratings — published 1985 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Andra 3.71 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1971 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Calling B for Butterfly by Louise Lawrence, Lawrence 4.17 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1982 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Moonwind 3.97 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1986 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Earth Witch 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Dream-Weaver 3.33 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Patchwork People 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Keeper of the Universe 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Journey Through Llandor (Llandor #1) 2.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Star Lord 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:

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Series by Louise Lawrence

Llandor Trilogy (3 books)
by Louise Lawrence

2.67 avg rating — 24 ratings

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Quotes by Louise Lawrence

“Homo sapiens! The name itself was an irony. They had not been wise at all, but incredibly stupid. Lords of the Earth with their great gray brains, their thinking minds had placed them above all other forms of life. Yet it had not been thought that compelled them to act, but emotion. From the dawn of their evolution they had killed, and conquered, and subdued. They had committed atrocities on others of their kind, ravaged the land, polluted and destroyed, left millions to starve in Third World countries, and finished it all with a nuclear holocaust. The mutants were right. Intelligent creatures did not commit genocide, or murder the environment on which they were dependent.”
― Louise Lawrence, Children of the Dust

tags: dystopia , war

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“Individuals had never much cared what had happened in the past, or would happen in the future, or how much others of their kind suffered or lacked. They did not care how many others died providing they lived. And government, to those who did not govern, had been largely a matter of indifference unless it happened to have a detrimental effect on the lives of individuals. Then, maybe, if the individuals had felt strongly enough, they had held protests, gone on strike, or started revolutions.”
― Louise Lawrence, Children of the Dust

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“Simon hated her for that. Perhaps it was automatic. Her appearance alone made her different from him, and human beings had always feared and hated anyone who was different. Two thousand years of history saw it being repeated over and over, the perpetual struggle of one race, or tribe, or creed, against another... each one thinking they were right, superior, morally justified, or chosen by God. Simon saw himself as normal, Laura as abnormal.”
― Louise Lawrence, Children of the Dust

tags: dystopia , hate

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