FICTION · BRITISH
Julia Gregson
Julia Gregson worked as a model for Hardie Amies before becoming a journalist. As foreign correspondent in the United Kindom, Australia, and the United States of America, she was posted to Vietnam and India, and then worked for Rolling Stone in New York, She has interviewed Muhammad Ali, Buzz Aldrin, Ronnie Biggs and Hollywood royalty. Her short-stories have been published in collections and magazines and read on the radio. Married with one daughter and four step-children, she lives in Monmouthshire, Wales with two Welsh cobs, a Shetland and two dogs.
OH, WHO AM I?
— from Band of Angels, 1977
Most acclaimed
Band of Angels
1977
Amantha Starr, who was sent to Ohio at age nine to receive an education, does not return to her father's Kentucky plantation until she learns of his death. At his graveside she is shocked to learn that her mother had been a plantation slave, and now she, Amantha, is being sold by her father's creditors. This is her story for a search of freedom.
The water horse
In 1930, on the coast of Scotland, eight-year-old Kirstie finds a large egg which hatches into an unusual sea creature, and as he grows her family must decide what to do with him.
East of the Sun
1992
Autumn 1928. Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful but naïve bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows. Victoria, her bridesmaid couldn't be happier to get away from her overbearing mother, and is determined to find herself a husband. And Viva, their inexperienced chaperone, is in search of the India of her childhood, ghosts from the past and freedom. Each of them has their own reason for leaving their homeland but the hopes and secrets they carry can do little to prepare them for what lies ahead in India.