Jane Rogers has published eight novels, written original television and radio drama, and adapted work for radio and TV. Her last book,
The Testament of Jessie Lamb, was
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the 2012 winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction; it was also longlisted for the Booker Prize. She has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Writers’ Guild Best Fiction Book, has been a finalist for the Guardian Fiction Prize, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is Professor of Writing at Sheffield Hallam University, and she lives in Banbury, England.
Rogers's new novel is
Conrad & Eleanor.
One of the author's
top ten books about long marriages, as shared at the
Guardian:
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The Children Act by Ian McEwan (2014)
McEwan very cleverly reveals just how much the turmoil in Fiona’s marriage is affecting her work as a high court judge. The economy and precision of the writing enable us to glimpse quite vividly her husband’s side of the story, and indeed the whole history of their 35-year-old marriage.
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another entry on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue