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Liz Jensen

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Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy


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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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Liz Jensen's Books

Average rating: 3.71 · 4,802 ratings · 987 reviews · 11 distinct works · Similar authors
The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 1,009 ratings — published 2004 — 27 editions
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The Rapture
3.31 of 5 stars 3.31 avg rating — 1,095 ratings — published 2009 — 23 editions
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The Uninvited
3.49 of 5 stars 3.49 avg rating — 556 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions
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My Dirty Little Book of Sto...
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 342 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions
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War Crimes For The Home
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions
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Ark Baby
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 1998 — 7 editions
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The Paper Eater
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions
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Egg Dancing
3.24 of 5 stars 3.24 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1996 — 7 editions
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The Rapture
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 2 editions
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4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 1,587 ratings — published 2006 — 28 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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“Carpe Dium, I say. Seize the day. Grab it by the throat and rattle its bollocks”
― Liz Jensen, Ark Baby
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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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