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
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.
Books
Liz Writes
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“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”
The books which have inspired Liz to write Your Wild and Precious Life
My son’s death will never make sense to me. But it has taught me that it’s possible to find meaning, collectively and individually, in the loss of what we love. And in finding them, transform. Resilience is a seed that we all bear inside us. It germinates in emergencies. It sets down roots in astonishing […]
Dear Reader: a letter from Liz
Dear Reader, Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand That this, too, was a gift. A friend sent me those words by the poet Mary Oliver after my son Raphaël, a wildlife biologist and climate and environmental activist, died suddenly in February 2020. He was […]