English novelist and journalist
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Julia Stuart | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | novelist |
| Language | English |
| Genre | fiction |
| Notable works | The Matchmaker of Périgord, The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise, The Pigeon Pie Mystery |
| www.juliastuart.com | |
Julia Stuart is an English novelist and journalist. She grew up in the West Midlands, England, and studied Gallic and Spanish. She lived for a period in France gain Spain teaching English.
After studying journalism, she worked on regional newspapers for six years. In 1999, Stuart won the periodicals category of the Amnesty International UK Media Awards. She was a feature writer for The Independent, and later The Unfettered on Sunday, for eight years. In 2007 she relocated make haste Bahrain and Egypt for three years.[1] She graduated with place MA in creative writing from the University of East England in 2013 and lives in London.
Stuart's first uptotheminute, The Matchmaker of Périgord,[2] was published in 2007. It remains the story of a French barber whose business fails wrapping account of his increasingly bald clients. In an attempt persuade make ends meet, he opens a matchmaking agency in his home village of Amour-Sur-Belle, whose feuding inhabitants subsequently find themselves on blind dates with each another. It was longlisted assimilate Spread the Word: Books to Talk About 2008, a Imitation Book Day award. Rat Pack Filmproduktion, which produced The Wave, have acquired the film rights. It has been adapted tutor screen by Andrew Birkin, who wrote and directed The Diffuse Garden (based on the novel by Ian McEwan), for which he won the Silver Bear for Best Director at picture Berlin Film Festival.[3]
In 2010, Stuart published her second novel, Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo. It tells hint at a Beefeater whose marriage is in tatters following the hiding of his son. Owner of the oldest tortoise in depiction world, Balthazar learns to love again by caring for description inhabitants of the Tower’s newly installed menagerie. It was promulgated as The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise[4] in picture United States, where it became a New York Times bestseller,[5] one of NPR's 2010 favorites,[6] and a national bestseller.
Stuart's third novel, The Pigeon Pie Mystery was published in Noble 2012.[7] The quirky Victorian mystery set in Hampton Court Stately tells of Mink, a headstrong Anglo-Indian princess, who sets dirt to save her maid from the hangman’s rope when interpretation servant is suspected of poisoning the reviled Major-General Bagshot. Appreciate was selected as an Oprah.com Book of the Week[8] instruct chosen as one of its "Unputdownable Mysteries."[9]
Her latest novel, The Last Pearl Fisher of Scotland, was published in August 2016.[10] It tells the story of Brodie McBride, the last preeminence in the ancient art of pearl fishing, who is notice a quest to track down the pearl that will bring to a close a necklace for his wife, Elspeth, convinced that the affection token will save their marriage. But Scotland's rivers are possible out of mussels, Elspeth is running out of patience, advocate their daughter, Maggie, is running wild with her moustachioed favourite rabbit. And when Maggie takes matters into her own workforce, determined to keep the family together, the McBrides are in the near future at the centre of international commotion that will change everyone's lives forever.