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Liz Jensen

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Oxfordshire, The United Kingdom

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Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Liz Jensen was born in Oxfordshire, the daughter of a Danish father and an Anglo-Moroccan mother. She spent two years as a journalist in the Far East before joining the BBC, first as a journalist, then as a TV and radio producer. She then moved to France where she worked as a sculptor began her first novel, Egg Dancing, which was published in 1995. Back in London she wrote Ark Baby (1998) which was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award, The Paper Eater (2000), and War Crimes for the Home (2002) which was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She has two children and shares her life with the Danish essayist, travel writer and novelist Carsten Jensen.

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Liz at the Norwich Book Festival

Books can change the world

Thursday October 24, 5:30 – 6:30pm The Auditorium, The Forum, Millennium Plain, Norwich

Can we use fantasy to confront and alter reality? Acclaimed authors and ecological activists, Lauren (Wren) James and Liz Jensen, join forces for an inspiring conversation on the power of words, and how literature can be used for radical change.

As respective founders of the ecological c

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Liz Jensen’s books

Average rating: 3.51 · 12,515 ratings · 1,736 reviews · 22 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Ninth Life of Louis Drax 3.58 avg rating — 5,529 ratings — published 2004 — 70 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Uninvited 3.46 avg rating — 2,454 ratings — published 2012 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rapture 3.30 avg rating — 2,461 ratings — published 2009 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time 3.50 avg rating — 759 ratings — published 2006 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	War Crimes for the Home 3.72 avg rating — 422 ratings — published 2002 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ark Baby 3.87 avg rating — 306 ratings — published 1998 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Paper Eater 3.49 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Egg Dancing 3.39 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 1996 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Your Wild and Precious Life: On grief, hope and rebellion 4.29 avg rating — 34 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Silver City 2094 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Everyone said that one day I was going to have a big accident, an accident to end all accidents. One day you might look up and see a kid falling from the sky. That would be me.”
― Liz Jensen, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

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“Hangovers are a vivid form of vengeance. Last night my apartment became the venue for a small, introverted chardonnay festival. A melancholy choir of Bulgarians provided the entertainment, via a set of headphones that ended up irredeemably tangled beneath the bed. Part of me just watched. The other part was in charge.”
― Liz Jensen, The Rapture

tags: alcohol, break-ups, hangover, self-pity

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“The thought of losing him again kills me. This is of course a figure of speech, I will remain alive, but I will not know happiness.”
― Liz Jensen, The Uninvited

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Polls

What book would you like to recommend to King for our August book club pick?

Jaws by Peter Benchley

23 votes, 12.2%

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

21 votes, 11.1%

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

18 votes, 9.5%

Boy's Life by Robert McCammon

15 votes, 7.9%

The Troop by Nick Cutter

13 votes, 6.9%

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

13 votes, 6.9%

Strangers by Dean Koontz

11 votes, 5.8%

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

10 votes, 5.3%

The Dark by James Herbert

8 votes, 4.2%

The Good Guy by Dean Koontz

8 votes, 4.2%

Night Film by Marisha Pessl

7 votes, 3.7%

The Killing Moon by Chuck Hogan

6 votes, 3.2%

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

6 votes, 3.2%

The Water-Method Man by John Irving

5 votes, 2.6%

Brutal Youth by Anthony Breznican

4 votes, 2.1%

The Dog Stars by Peter Heller

3 votes, 1.6%

Malevil by Robert Merle

3 votes, 1.6%

A Creed for the Third Millennium by Colleen McCullough

3 votes, 1.6%

The Merciless by Danielle Vega

3 votes, 1.6%

The Croning by Laird Barron

2 votes, 1.1%

Earth Abides by George R. Stewart

2 votes, 1.1%

The Medicine People by Lazarus Barnhill

2 votes, 1.1%

Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch

1 vote, 0.5%

A Singular Man by J.P. Donleavy

1 vote, 0.5%

The Rapture by Liz Jensen

1 vote, 0.5%

The Wave by Todd Strasser

0 votes, 0.0%

Where the Chill Waits by T. Chris Martindale

0 votes, 0.0%

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Liz Jensen's Blog

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