No Oil Painting

• Utgivningsdatum: 2025-10-10
• Mått: 201 x 15 x 118 mm
• Vikt: 300 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 274
• Förlag: Burton Mayers Books
• ISBN: 9781917224123

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GenevieveMarenghi's writing uses dark humour to probe the difference between ourperception of people and their true selves. The gulf between what is said andwhat is meant. While No Oil Painting explores themes of insignificance andloneliness in older age, it is mainly intended to entertain and offer thereader some respite from the everyday grind. Genevieve'swork has been listed for the 2021 Curtis Brown, CBC and Women's Prize TrustDiscoveries Prize, as well as the Writers' & Artists' Short Story Competition2024. She also received 'an honourable mention' for the Failing Writers'Podcast Festive Flash Fiction Competition 2024. With adegree in English and Philosophy from Exeter University, she worked for elevenyears at the Weekend FT, where she helped create and launch How To Spend Itmagazine.Genevieve lives in London's burbs with her husband. While she never tires ofthe Big Smoke, her soul lies on the wild north Cornish coast. She also enjoysvisiting her daughter in Manchester - another great city. Fuelled mainly by chocolate,crisps and Prosecco, she values live music and old friends. Recently, she hasdeveloped an alarming fondness for museum shops and fridge magnets.

'Genevieve M. Daly's utterly charming,life-affirming heist novel had me laughing out loud and looking forward to somehilarious hijinks in my own golden years.'Kirsten Miller - NewYork Times bestselling author of 'The Change' and 'Lula Dean's Library ofBanned Books''A warm bath of Britishness.Funny, sunny and beautifully observed.'Nick Watt - CNN National Correspondent 'Genevieve vividly captures Ham House and life as a guide, you're with heras she paces in awe around magnificent spaces and delight when she picks outdetails normally missed by others. Her writing fizzes with mischievous fun, Iadored the characters and story.'Katie Wignall London Blue Badge Tourist Guide / Creator of Look Up London

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