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Rebecca Foster
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London-based author and theater director Susie Boyt has written seven novels and the PEN Ackerley Prize-shortlisted memoir My Judy Garland Life. Her name might not be familiar to American readers, since Loved and Missed is her first novel to be published in the United States. However, some may recognize her famous family members: she is a daughter of painter Lucian Freud and a great-granddaughter of pioneering psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. At risk of diminishing her own gifts through reference to her male ancestors, I would venture to assert that she shares the one's painterly eye and the other's interest in a psychological understanding of relationships. Through vivid, touching vignettes, her exquisite novella reveals the entire history of three generations of women: Ruth, a London schoolteacher; Eleanor, her heroin-addicted daughter; and Lily, Eleanor's plucky daughter.
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