Just You and the Page by Sue Gee

Just You and the Page by Sue Gee

Just You and the Page opens in 1971, with the dramatist Michael Wall hammering out his plays on a portable typewriter. It concludes in 2020, when the novelist and academic Josie Barnard is teaching students to compose novels on Instagram. Between them are Booker prize winners; a poet whose life was changed by a profound religious conversion; a translator for whom Pushkin has meant everything; a distinguished environmental journalist; a famous diarist; a nature writer who restored a wood, and a political activist who fled her country and is writing now in exile.

Sue Gee has interviewed twelve distinctively different writers, all old friends, looking at what has shaped them; at struggle, inspiration and dedication to their art. Part memoir, part literary biography, published in extraordinary times, Just You and the Page is above all about resilience.

Sue Gee is a novelist and short story writer. She has published eleven novels, receiving the Romantic Novel of the Year Award for 'The Hours of the Night' (1995) and long-listed for the Orange Prize with 'The Mysteries of Glass' in 2005. Her most recent novel is 'Trio' (2016). She ran the MA in Creative Writing at Middlesex University from 2000-2008 and was awarded a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at the University of London Graduate School in 2008. Since 2010 she has taught at the Faber Academy, and worked as a mentor for the Write to Life group at Freedom from Torture. With the novelist Charles Palliser she has for some twenty years run monthly author events at Stoke Newington Bookshop, under the umbrella N16 Writers & Readers. She is a frequent contributor to Slightly Foxed.

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ISBN 13	9781781725221
ISBN 10	1781725225
Title	Just You and the Page
Author	Sue Gee
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Poetry Wales Press
Year published	2021-06-02
Number of pages	272
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