Lucy Ellmann

American-born British novelist based in Edinburgh, and the daughter of biographer Richard Ellmann and critic Mary Ellmann. She studied at Falmouth School of Art, the University of Essex and the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her first novel, Sweet Desserts (1988), won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and Dot in the Universe was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Other novels include Varying Degrees of Hopelessness, Doctors & Nurses and Mimi. Ducks, Newburyport (2019), the monologue of an Ohio housewife told largely in a single sentence over about 1,000 pages, won the Goldsmiths Prize and was shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize.

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