Justine Picardie
Author of 2002’s bestselling non-fiction memoir, If The Spirit Moves You, Justine Picardie’s first novel, Wish I May, was published in 2004 and her latest, Daphne, (2008, Bloomsbury) has been described by The Times as ‘glorious’. She is also a Sunday Telegraph Magazine columnist and former features editor of British Vogue.
Justine is the author of two novels and four non-fiction titles, as well as the co-writer and editor of several other books. Her most recent novel Daphne draws on the true story of Daphne du Maurier’s obsession with the Brontë sisters, to create an intriguing mystery grounded in Justine’s exhaustive research of du Maurier. Praise for Daphne has been full, heralded both for its originality and its page-turning qualities. Time Out called it a “a potent, pulse-quickening novel” while The Financial Times described it as “a tantalising literary mystery…Effortlessly overlaying today’s London, Yorkshire and Cornwall with their 1950s incarnations, this novel draws you in to its fraught but passionate world as thoroughly as one of Daphne’s own.”
“Picardie’s clever and original novel presents…an argument for a reassessment of du Maurier’s literary quality.”
The Evening Standard
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