The Joyce Girl

The Joyce Girl

James Joyce was her father. Samuel Beckett was her lover. The stunning fictionalisation of the life of Lucia Joyce.

Paris, 1928. Avant-garde Paris is buzzing with the latest ideas in art, music and literature from artists such as Ford Madox Ford and Zelda Fitzgerald. Lucia, the talented and ambitious daughter of controversial genius James Joyce, is making her name as a dancer. But when Lucia falls passionately in love with budding writer (and fellow Irish expat) Samuel Beckett he is banned from the Joyce family home.

1934. Her life in tatters, Lucia is sent to pioneering psychoanalyst Carl Jung. For years she has kept quiet. Now she decides to speak.

Profoundly moving and stunningly written, The Joyce Girl brings to light the untold tale of Lucia Joyce. It will entrance and educate you. You will fall in love with this compelling woman, but she will break your heart too.

Annabel Abbs lives in London with her husband and four children. The Joyce Girl is her first novel. It won the Impress Prize for new Writers, was longlisted for the Bath Novel Award and the Caledonia Novel Award.

The Joyce Girl
Hachette Australia
Author: Annabel Abbs
ISBN: 9780733636974
RRP: $32.99