Ann Schlee
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Ann Schlee was born in Connecticut in 1934 and spent parts of her childhood and adolescence in Egypt, Sudan, Khartoum, and Eritrea. She went to boarding school in England and read English at Somerville College, Oxford. In 1957 she married artist Nick Schlee, brought up their four children, and wrote five children’s novels, including The Vandal, which won the 1980 Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. Rhine Journey, the first of her novels for adults, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1981. Subsequently she combined her writing with teaching, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997.
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Ann Schlee
Foreword by Lauren Groff
On a Victorian pleasure cruise, a chance encounter opens the floodgates to desire, regret, and possibility in this “little period gem of feeling and clarity” (The Guardian), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.