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Sample of authors
Kent, Hannah
The Australian author Hannah Kent looks back on an idyllic childhood in Adelaide Hills. Together with her little sister, she spent a lot of time out in nature among oaks and rubber trees. This interest in nature is mirrored in her novels, in which she likes to "transform the qualities of nature into prose". She is one of those children who decide to become an author at an early age. She made...
Literary figures
Liz (Elizabeth) Carlyle
Gender: Female
The quick-thinking British secret agent Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Carlyle has worked since 1994 for MI5 and later MI6. She is – according to author Stella Remington – 34 years old in the first book about her, is 168 cm tall, has brown hair and greyish-blue eyes and is described as pretty. She lives in a simple little flat in London and is single, but she satisfies her sexual needs with a married man that sh...