Patricia Duncker

Patricia Duncker is the author of three novels, Hallucinating Foucault (1996), James Miranda Barry (1999), The Deadly Space Between (2002), and two collections of short fiction, Monsieur Shoushana's Lemon Trees (1997) and Seven Tales of Sex and Death (2003), all of which have been widely translated. She has published many literary essays and scholarly articles and edited several collections of short fiction for Honno, the Welsh Women's Press, the most recent of which is Mirror, Mirror (2004). Her critical work includes Sisters and Strangers: An Introduction to Contemporary Feminist Fiction (Blackwell, 1992) and a collection of essays on writing and contemporary literature, Writing on the Wall: Selected Essays (Rivers Oram, 2002). Her forthcoming novel, The Way that it Shows, will be published by Bloomsbury and addresses the question of friendship and war. She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

''From Cambridge to Paris to Nice, through the oppressive heat of a French summer, Duncker uses our senses to build her characters...Not to be taken at face value, this novel leaves you perspiring, but chillingly inspired.'' The Observer, on Hallucinating Foucault. 

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