Background
Wadham was born in London and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford.
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Lost (Faber Plays) by Lucy Wadham (2004-05-06)
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Heads and Straights: The Circle Line (Penguin Underground Lines)
( From Lucy Wadham, the bestselling author of The Secret ...)
From Lucy Wadham, the bestselling author of The Secret Life of France, Heads and Straights is an autobiographical tale of bohemians, punk, the King's Road in the 1970s, and family—part of a series of 12 books tied to the 12 lines of the London Underground, as Tfl celebrates 150 years of the Tube with Penguin. Also available in a boxed set.
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Lucy Wadham
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Education
Magdalen College.
Career
Her most widely reviewed work is her autobiographical account of her life in France, The Secret Life of France (2009). In 1989, she worked as a news assistant at the British Broadcasting Corporation Paris bureau and has been a freelance print journalist since 1994. She has contributed regularly to The Guardian, The Spectator, and The New Statesman.
The second novel, Castro"s Dream (2003), about the Basque separatist movement ETA, is set in the Basque Country.
Wadham"s 2009 book, The Secret Life of France, is part memoir and part essay focussing on the cultural differences between Britain and France. She writes a blog on the same theme under the same name.
Her 2013 book, Heads and Straights, part of Penguin"s series celebrating the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, traces her family"s recent history through the lens of social class provided by growing up in Chelsea during the rise of punk rock.
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Heads and Straights: The Circle Line (Penguin Underground Lines)
( From Lucy Wadham, the bestselling author of The Secret ...)
- Lost (Faber Plays) by Lucy Wadham (2004-05-06)
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Heads and Straights: The Circle Line (Penguin Underground Lines)
