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BETTER BROKEN THAN NEW

A Fragmented Memoir

BETTER BROKEN THAN NEW
Genre:

Biography & Memoirs

Author:

Lisa St Aubin de Terán

Publisher:

Amaurea Press

Language:

English

AUTHOR BIO:

Lisa St Aubin de Terán is the prize-winning author of 20 books, including novels, short stories and non-fiction. She is Anglo-Guyanese, and was born and brought up in London. Aged 16, she married an exiled Venezuelan freedom fighter and landowner. After two years travelling around Italy and France, she moved to the Venezuelan Andes, where she managed her husband's semi-feudal sugar plantation for seven years. Much of her writing draws on that time and place. And time warps, rural communities, is...

Pages:

326

Publication:

2024

Rights available:

Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Swedish

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DESCRIPTION:

Following a successful career as an award-winning, best-selling novelist, in 2004 Lisa St Aubin de Teran retreated to a remote village in northern Mozambique. There she found her own African roots, founded a charity, and confronted new challenges. Much has been written about her life and escapades with a trio of Venezuelan exiles, life on an Andean hacienda, her return to literary fame, and two decades living in a crumbling Umbrian palace. But despite all the media hype about her, she managed to hide much of her actual life. Now, like the Japanese art of kintsugi, in this new memoir Lisa puts the shattered pieces of her life back together, filling in many of the dramatic, and often scandalous, gaps. While her life has been said to be stranger than fiction, it is fiction that has kept her afloat. This autobiography sets the record straight and shows a writer who for over half a century has enjoyed following her dreams, even when those dreams outdistanced her reach.

REVIEWS:

 “One of the most bonkers life stories I’ve read... It is a riveting read, one that conjures up a lost world of international bohemisnism.”  _ Johanna Thomas-Corr, The Times  “Vastly entertaining – and shocking.” _Catherine Taylor, Financial Times  On Lisa St Aubin de Terán:  “A spellbinding storyteller.” The Listener  “An extraordinary woman…if you encountered her as a character in a novel, you’d want to read on.” Express  “Sensual, impressionistic prose that recreates vividly her experiences.” The Times

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