Liz Jensen
Liz Jensen is the author of eight novels including the eco-thrillers The Rapture and The Uninvited, and the Hollywood-adapted The Ninth Life of Louis Drax. Her most recent work is the memoir Your Wild and Precious Life
Her work has been short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Award, nominated three times for the Women’s Fiction prize, adapted for theatre and radio, and translated into twenty languages.
Podcasts
What’s Happening
Your Wild and Precious Life (Dit Vilde og Dyrebare Liv) Danish release date
On April the 10th Your Wild and Precious Life (Dit Vilde og Dyrebare…
Books
Liz Writes
Click to enlarge the photos.
“A cracking good read”
“If there was ever a book that should be read by lots of people then this is it. Prepare to be horribly spooked”
“Wonderfully unsettling …An oddly beautiful journey into the darkest corners of the human soul”
“An exceptional writer”
“An end-of-days blockbuster to haunt your nightmares…unputdownable”
“A masterclass on how to write an engaging thriller about a relevant contemporary issue while still respecting the reader’s brain cells….you’ll be gripped”
Grief isn’t the end. It’s where to start from
Four years ago, I got the phone call that every parent dreads. Without warning, my healthy 25-year-old son Raphaël – a wildlife biologist and ecological activist – had collapsed and died. The trauma catapulted me into a place of almost hallucinatory madness: a territory so tormenting, debilitating, and bleak that I couldn’t imagine how I’d […]
How death taught me how to live
As a young mother, I was haunted by the terror that one day a child of mine would die. It took root after my first son was born, and by the time I was pregnant with my second, it was unbearable. Superstitiously terrified told that if I told anyone, it might come true, I kept […]