Award-winning Lacey Brooke's Novel Receiving Acclaimed Reviews

Lacey Brooke's novel The Mischief Maker, or the Loathsome History of a Malcontent has been receiving critical acclaim.

2012-07-04

LONDON, ENGLAND, July 04, 2012 (Press-News.org) New Generation Publishing is delighted to announce the success of The Mischief Maker, or the Loathsome History of a Malcontent by Julia Lacey Brooke.

J (Julia) Lacey Brooke writes worldly satires for grownups.

Her first novel, The Mischief Maker, or the Loathsome History of a Malcontent, came out in 2010, (New Generation Publishing ISBN 978-1-908775-93-1). The picaresque tragicomedy of a modern revenger spanning 40 years and a great many locations and milieux, it was Bookblast's 'book of the month' in December 2011 and has been well-received by reviewers on Amazon. Her second novel, Circled By The Sands, is a darkly hilarious adventure set mostly in ex-pat Ital and which follows the story of Mischief Maker heroine, Veronica Dearborn.

Two of her short stories have recently won awards. Guilt Sweets - a tale which 'explores a jaded marriage with darkly comic effect' won Writers' Billboard May 1st Prize and was Highly Commended by Sentinel Literary Quarterly. The Haunting of Daisy Thompson has just won a prestigious place in New Dawn's Best & Brightest 2012 Anthology, which will be published soon. Both stories are part of a new collection, Behind the Pleasance & Other Tales, which is almost complete. She has a new novel, Hostages to Fortune, under construction.

Lacey Brooke was born in 1956 and grew up in a country village in Leicestershire where she went unwillingly to school, rode horses, wrote stories and wanted to become a vet. When her hopelessness at maths ruled out any kind of medical career, she turned to her second love, English Literature which, with a 'minor' in Renaissance History, she read at the University of East Anglia and discovered a passion for the Jacobeans . She taught English in various colleges of Higher Ed. in London and the Southwest, and read for her M.Litt degree on Jacobean malcontents at the University of Birmingham's Shakespeare Institute.

In 2001, she moved to Sicily to teach at the Mediterranean Center for Arts & Sciences (MCAS) in Siracusa. Now widowed for a second time, she still lives in rural Italy, loves gardening, wildlife and conservation, music and cats; she teaches part-time, and lectures on Shakespeare's Italian influences amongst other things, and writes. She has a son who lives in England.

Visit her Author Page on Amazon's Author Central, or via Linkedin.

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