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Stella Duffy

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Stella Duffy was born in London and grew up in New Zealand. She has lived and worked in London since the mid-1980s. She has written seventeen novels, over seventy short stories, and devised and/or written fourteen plays. The Room of Lost Things and State of Happiness were both longlisted for the Orange Prize, and she has twice won Stonewall Writer of the Year. She has twice won the CWA Short Story Dagger. Stella is the co-founder of the Fun Palaces campaign for cultural democracy. Her latest novel is Lullaby Beach (Virago).
She is also a yoga teacher, teaching workshops in yoga for writing, and a trainee Existential Psychotherapist, her ongoing doctoral research is in the embodied experience of being postmenopausal.

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	Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore (Empress Theodora, #1) 3.54 avg rating — 1,549 ratings — published 2010 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Purple Shroud (Empress Theodora, #2) 3.65 avg rating — 404 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Room of Lost Things 3.70 avg rating — 370 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lullaby Beach 3.75 avg rating — 363 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	London Lies Beneath 3.62 avg rating — 301 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hidden Room 3.32 avg rating — 315 ratings — published 2017 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Calendar Girl (Saz Martin #1) 3.56 avg rating — 261 ratings — published 1994 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tart Noir by Stella Duffy (Goodreads Author) (Editor / Contributor), Lauren Henderson (Editor / Contributor), Chris Niles (Contributor) 3.32 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Singling Out the Couples 3.54 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 1998 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beneath the Blonde 3.61 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I’m going to be posting on Substack rather than here from now & for a while I’ll cross post here too. This is what I shared today about my new book on postmenopause: Being the Change – Thriving in Postmenopause. It’s my first non-fiction book and comes out with Virago in February 2027. Here’s the […]

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“It's never fair. It has never been fair, any of it, and our reasonableness cannot undo the unfair.”
― Stella Duffy, Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed

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“Struck down by the kind of nervous distress known only to the most modern of artists and then only those with a private income”
― Stella Duffy, Money in the Morgue

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“A certain style of modern detective fiction might show our hero rushing to a terribly clever supposition by page sixteen and spending the rest of the novel proving himself right, but for your long-suffering actual policeman there is merely painstaking elimination and solid detective work, which means questioning every possible suspect.”
― Stella Duffy, Money in the Morgue

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