Lee Langley

Who is Lee Langley?

Lee Langley. She is the author of several novels, including Changes of Address, a largely autobiographical account of her childhood in India, the first in a loose trilogy of novels set in India which was short-listed for the Hawthornden Prize . It was followed by Persistent Rumours, which won the Writers' Guild Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and A House in Pondicherry. Her novel, Distant Music, spans six centuries in a narrative that begins on the Portuguese island of Madeira in the 15th century and ends in London in the year 2000. Her most recent novel, A Conversation on the Quai Voltaire, was set in 18th and 19th century Paris, Italy, Russia and Egypt, and recreated the life of Dominique Vivant Denon, one of the most significant figures in French art history.

She has also written several film scripts and screenplays, including television adaptations of Graham Greene's The Tenth Man; several stories by Rumer Godden, and Barbara Taylor Bradford's A Woman of Substance. She has written on travel and the arts for leading newspapers and magazines.

Lee Langley is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in Richmond, London. Her next novel, “Butterfly’s Shadow” set in mid-twentieth century America and Japan, takes Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly as a springboard to send the characters into an imagined future. Lee Langley lives in Richmond, London.