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LORNA SAGE, OBSERVER: “Her great gift to her readers has all along been her romantic restlessness and sheer dissatisfaction. It’s this quality that makes her writing addictive – what she calls in a nice phrase from the new book, ‘the habit of faraway places’”
THE WILDER SHORES OF LOVE
WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD: “Love, wanderlust, faraway places – all that Romance implies – make up this make up this delicious book”
NEW YORKER: “Four seething but most enjoyable studies in headlong nonconformity”
DAILY TELEGRAPH : “Lesley Blanch has a mischievous chuckle, a girlish voice, precise enunciation and claims that The Wilder Shores of Love is popular because it sounds pornographic . . . . She loves the Arab world as much as her subjects did . . . Blanch may be romantic but is never naïve”
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THE GUARDIAN: “Crammed with truly fabulous stories of fighting and love and violent death . . . this profound and exhilarating book turns the struggle of the people of the C
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Lesley Lokko
Ghanaian academic and writer (born 1964)
Lesley Naa Norle LokkoOBE (born 1964) is a Ghanaian-Scottish academic, and novelist.[1] From 2019 to 2020, she was a professor and served as dean of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture in New York,[2] in addition to holding teaching and other positions in Johannesburg, London, Accra and Edinburgh.[3]
In 2015, Lokko established the Graduate School of Architecture (GSA) at University of Johannesburg – an African school dedicated to postgraduate architecture education.[4] She returned to Accra, Ghana, in 2021 and established the African Futures Institute, a postgraduate school of architecture and public events platform.
In January 2024, Lokko was announced by the Royal Institute of British Architecture (RIBA) as recipient of the Royal Gold Medal, one of the world's highest honours for architecture.[5] She was named on TIME magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential People of 2024.[6][7]
Early life and education
Lesley Lokko
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I love the ordinary moments.
I celebrate everyday things.
They are too often lost in the race for something grand. I hold dear our humdrum routines. These accumulating hours make up our lifetimes and when we remember, it is always the simplest of pleasures that make us happy. These are the memories I create in my books.
Hubby and I were raised in Montreal, but have lived in the same house in rural Cape Breton for forty-five years. It remains a sanctuary for our children and pets, both living and remembered. My writing began as an exercise in trying to understand my world and quickly became something that brought me joy. I dearly love my family, my little granddaughters Gia Elizabeth and Anna Moon, all creatures great and small, children’s books, and breathing in the wild ocean air.
Also, raisin tea biscuits.
Well, Dick's dead. Now what?
Margo, his widow, is trying to dodge the tsunami of paperwork coming her way. She doesn't want to deal with the details — why do you think she was married in the first place? Dick always handled the drudgery.
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