Alison Jean Lester
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Alison Jean Lester

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Alison Jean Lester is the product of a British mother and an American father, and speaks with an American accent but lives in England. Before moving to the UK she spent 25 years in Asia (China, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore), the result of a BA in Mandarin and an MA in Chinese studies and international relations. Her first published book of fiction was a short-story collection, Locked Out: Stories Far from Home (Monsoon Books, 2007). In 2010, when working as a corporate coach, she published an essay collection, Restroom Reflections: How Communication Changes Everything, which is now out in a second edition. In 2015, Putnam Books in the US and John Murray Books in the UK published her debut novel, Lillian on Life, which was also translated into French, Italian and German. In 2017, John Murray published her second, Yuki Means Happiness. During the pandemic years she set up the indie Bench Press Books with her photographer husband, Andrew Gurnett. They have published her memoir, Absolutely Delicious: A Chronicle of Extraordinary Dying (2020), her novels Glide (2021) and The Sound of It (2022), and a mystery, Murder at Palito Point (2025), which she co-wrote as A.J. Myrth with her friend Eva Myrth Robbins.
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