Lily King
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Lily
King

Lily King is the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of six novels——as well as the story collection Five Tuesdays in Winter. Her work has won numerous prizes and awards, including the Kirkus Prize, the New England Book Award, and a Whiting Award; has been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction; and has been longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages. She lives in Portland, Maine.

Lily King is the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of six novels——as well as the story collection Five Tuesdays in Winter. Her work has won numerous prizes and awards, including the Kirkus Prize, the New England Book Award, and a Whiting Award; has been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction; and has been longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages. She lives in Portland, Maine.

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