Background
Lash was born at Chichester, Sussex on 27 February 1938, the daughter of Joan Mary (née Moore) and Brigadier Henry Alleyne Lash, a British colonial officer Lash lived in India, where her father was stationed until the age of 6.
Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Jennifer Lash attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart (now Beechwood Sacred Heart School).
Jennifer Lash
Jennifer Lash
(The story concerns David Carlisle, who witnesses a man be...)
The story concerns David Carlisle, who witnesses a man being roughed up on the subway and becomes obsessed with helping him. Carlisle soon finds himself a prisoner in a remote Irish cottage, captured by the person he was obsessed about saving.
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1977
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This is a story of an old man who literally collects dust in any containers and boxes that he can find. Regarded as crazy, he is accidentally accused of child molestation and is passed between priests, jails, and mental institutions — eventually attaining a sort of local celebrity status.
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1979
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This book tells the story of a couple who basically have a good family life. The husband is running a failing bookstore, and his wife longs to paint but is concerned about conflict with domestic obligations (including caring for their several children). She is able to borrow a friend’s house in France to go and paint, but the bottom falls out financially at home and the family ends up losing their original house and making a new life in Bristol.
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1980
(Set mainly in Ireland, Jennifer Lash's dark, exhilarating...)
Set mainly in Ireland, Jennifer Lash's dark, exhilarating novel is about the redemptive power of love. It tells of Violet Farr and her loveless marriage, her wild, unfathomable son and his illegitimate son, all of them bound together in a repeating pattern of exile and homecoming, rejection and, finally, acknowledgement and love.
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1998
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From the remarkably talented novelist comes an unforgettable travel memoir. In 1986 Jennifer Lash learned she had cancer, and after a painful operation, she embarked on a solitary pilgrimage through France to Spain. Travelling to places of contemporary Christian pilgrimage such as Lourdes, Lisieux and Taize, as well as making numerous stops in Vezelay, Le Puy, and Le Chaise-Dieu high in the forests of Auvergne, Saint-Gilles, she finished her pilgrimage at the celebratory phenomenon of Santiago de Compostela. Sensitive, humorous, courageous and inspiring, On Pilgrimage is the story of this incredible journey.
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1998
Lash was born at Chichester, Sussex on 27 February 1938, the daughter of Joan Mary (née Moore) and Brigadier Henry Alleyne Lash, a British colonial officer Lash lived in India, where her father was stationed until the age of 6.
Raised a Roman Catholic, Lash attended boarding school at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and continued on to Farnham Art School.
In 1961, she published her first novel, The Burial, at the age of 23. Lash was widely regarded as one of the most promising young people among England"s up and coming artists at the time. Upon meeting Jennifer Lash in Suffolk, Dodie Smith, who wrote The Hundred and One Dalmatians, remarked that Lash was "almost too interesting to be true".
She has English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry.
When her family returned to England, they settled down in Surrey. When she was 16 years old, her studies were cut short by family problems.
She discontinued her education and moved to London where she supported herself with odd jobs to support her artistic pursuits. In the mid 50s she met the lyric poet and gallery owner Iris Birtwistle In Churt, Surrey where they were both living.
Shortly afterwards when Birtwistle moved to Walberswick, Suffolk, Lash went with her and, encouraged by Birtwistle, began work on her first novel, The Burial.
There were 7 children of the marriage: actors Ralph Fiennes and Joseph Fiennes, film makers Martha Fiennes and Sophie Fiennes, composer Magnus Fiennes, Jacob Fiennes, a conservation manager, and a foster son, Michael Emery, an archaeologist. The family frequently relocated and lived in Suffolk, Wiltshire, Ireland and London. Lash went on to write four more novels over the next twenty years.
They are: The Prism (1963), Get Down There and Die (1977), The Dust Collector (1979) and From May to October (1980).
Lash"s haunting paintings were featured in several exhibitions in The Penwith Galleries in Street Ives, The Halesworth Gallery and Westleton Chapel Gallery in Suffolk. In the late 1980s Lash was diagnosed with breast cancer.
While in remission from the disease, she travelled to Lourdes and Saintes Maries de la Mer in France and to Spain"s sacred Santiago de Compostella. During this time she wrote her only non-fiction book, On Pilgrimage.
Jennifer Lash lost her fight to cancer on 28 December 1993 at Odstock, Wiltshire, aged 55.
Her final novel Blood Ties was published posthumously in 1997.
(The story concerns David Carlisle, who witnesses a man be...)
1977(This is a story of an old man who literally collects dust...)
1979(Set mainly in Ireland, Jennifer Lash's dark, exhilarating...)
1998(This book tells the story of a couple who basically have ...)
1980(From the remarkably talented novelist comes an unforgetta...)
1998