Ruth Padel
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Ruth Padel

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Ruth's new book is DAUGHTERS OF THE LABYRINTH. a novel set on Crete where she has lived on and off most of her life. The book took ten years to write, and has that complex beautiful island at its heart, but also questions of identity, mothers and daughters, family secrets, and the lost Jews of Crete 'Animated by keen imaginative empathy and a strong sense of place a moving, satisfying, layered novel on questions of identitt and complexities of family' (Daily Mail). ‘A moving and superbly written exploration of a family with dark secrets. Crete itself becomes one of the main characters in the story.’ (Irish Times, Best Books, Summer Reading 2021) Ruth is an award-winning poet, Professor of Poetry at King's College London and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her twelve collections include a collection on Beethoven's life and music: 'Beethoven Is more Intimate than ever in these new poems: she tells the great composer’s life story more profoundly than most biographies,' (New York Times). She has also written on wild tigers, TIGERS IN RED WEATHER, exploring Asian forests with naturalists and scientists - whom she wrote about in her first novel set in India, WHERE THE SERPENT LIVES, She teaches poetry in King's College London, where she runs a series of talks called POETRY AND - , exploring poetry's connections to all areas of life: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/06/ruth-padel-poetry-connection-readings Website www.ruthpadel.com. Twitter @ruthpadel, Instagram ruth_padel
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