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Alison MacLeod

Biography

Alison MacLeod

Alison MacLeod is the author of three novels --- THE CHANGELING, THE WAVE THEORY OF ANGELS and UNEXPLODED, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 --- and two story collections. She is the joint winner of the Eccles British Library Writer’s Award 2016 and was a finalist for the 2017 Governor General’s Award. She was Professor of Contemporary Fiction at the University of Chichester until 2018, when she became Visiting Professor to write full-time. She lives in Brighton.

Alison MacLeod

Books by Alison MacLeod

Tenderness
by Alison MacLeod - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Alison MacLeod brilliantly recreates the origins of LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER and boldly imagines its journey to freedom through the story of Jackie Kennedy, who was known to be an admirer. In MacLeod's telling, Jackie --- in her last days before becoming First Lady --- learns that publishers are trying to bring D.H. Lawrence's long-censored novel to American and British readers in its full form. The U.S. government has responded by targeting the postal service for distributing obscene material. Enjoying what anonymity she has left, determined to honor a novel she loves, Jackie attends the hearing incognito. But there she is quickly recognized, and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover takes note of her interest and her outrage.