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Elizabeth Mary Oakleigh-Walker Buchan

エリザベス・メアリー・オークリー=ウォーカー・ブキャン

Erizabesu Mearī Ōkurī-Wōkā Bukan

Aliases: Elizabeth Buchan / née Oakleigh-Walker
Pen Names: Elizabeth BuchanPen name

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1948-05-21 (Guildford, Surrey, England)
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Residence History
Guildford, Surrey → London

Career

Occupations
Novelist, critic
Active Years
1985-2024
Affiliations
Penguin Books, Random House, Romantic Novelists' Association
Memberships
Patron of the Guildford Book Festival, Patron of the National Academy of Writing

Education

University of Kent
Faculty of English and History
Degree: Double degree in English and History
Period: 1970年代
Country: United Kingdom

Awards

Romantic Novel of the Year Award
1994
Work: Consider the Lily
Organization: Romantic Novelists' Association
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Consider the Lily

1993 Romantic novel

A romantic novel that won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award.

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Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman

2001 Romantic novel

A novel about a middle-aged woman's revenge, adapted into a CBS TV film.

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Adaptations
  • [television film] Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman

Bibliography

  • Ice Dancer (1985)
  • Daughters of the Storm (1988)
  • A Dashing Young Tiger Named Jack (1987)
  • Beatrix Potter: The Story of the Creator of Peter Rabbit (1987)
  • Light of the Moon (1991)
  • Consider the Lily (1993)
  • Perfect Love (1995)
  • Against Her Nature (1997)
  • Secrets of the Heart (2000)
  • Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman (2001)
  • The Good Wife (2003)
  • That Certain Age (2004)
  • The Second Wife (2006)
  • Separate Beds (2010)
  • Daughters (2012)
  • I Can't Begin to Tell You (2014)
  • The New Mrs Clifton (2016)
  • The Museum of Broken Promises (2019)
  • Two Women in Rome (2021)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Romantic style
Recurring Motifs
women's livesfamily relationships

Legacy

British romantic novelist known for winning the Romantic Novel of the Year Award.

Trivia

  • Married to the grandson of novelist John Buchan.