Her first novel, The Bellini Madonna, was published in 2008 to great acclaim and reissued in September 2019.
Her second novel, Dark Water, appeared in September 2018. It was The Times’s Historical Fiction Book of the Month, The Sunday Times’s Historical Fiction Critic’s Choice, The Guardian’s Book of the Day, and was chosen as a Times and New Statesman Book of the Year.
Dark Water was longlisted for the 2019 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and for the HWA’s Gold Crown Award for 2019.
Lowry's new novel is The Chosen.
At the Guardian she tagged her ten "favourite depictions of coupledom gone wrong," including:
Heartburn by Nora EphronRead about the other entries on the list.
Delectably acid, this is the quintessential marital revenge novel: a roman à clef, based on the collapse of the marriage of Ephron(then a food writer) to the political journalist Carl Bernstein. Rachel Samstat and her husband Mark Feldman have moved to Washington, DC, for his career. Then Mark has an affair with Thelma Rice (AKA Margaret Jay) who resembles a giraffe “with big feet”. Small-footed Rachel not only dumps him but writes this bestseller, too. Bonus: the book is studded with delicious recipes.
Heartburn is among Candice Carty-Williams's six heroic women in literature, Jeff Somers's ten books to read before getting divorced, Diana Secker Tesdell's top ten memorable meals in literature, and Anna Murphy's top ten lesser-known literary heroines.
--Marshal Zeringue
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