Elizabeth Wasssell

Life
1957- ; b. NY; lives in W. Cork and Nice (S. of France) with John Montague, her partner; issued novels, The Honey Plain (1997); Sleight of Hand (1999); The Things He Loves (2001); contrib. extract of new novel to “Write Now”, The Irish Times [Weekend] (9 March 2002) and issued Sustenance (2011), a novel about a relationships between a restaurant critic and a chef in Celtic-tiger Dublin.

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Works
The Honey Plain (Wolfhound 1997); Sleight of Hand (1999); Th eThings he Loves (Brandon 2001); contrib. extract of new novel to “Write Now”, The Irish Times [Weekend] (9 March 2002); Sustenance (Liberties Press 2011), 241pp.

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Criticism
See Kitty Hayes, review of Sustenance, in The Irish Times (2 July 2011), Weekend Review, p.11. [Lily is an American restaurant critic of part-Jewish descent living in Ireland; Nicholas is a Belfastman from a loyalist background].

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