When Ebony Diamond mysteriously disappears in the middle of a performance, Frankie is drawn into a world of tricks, society columnists, corset fetishists, suffragettes and circus freaks. Sent to interview trapeze artist Ebony Diamond, Frankie finds herself fascinated by the tightly laced acrobat and follows her across London to a Mayfair corset shop that hides more than one dark secret.
For broke Fleet Street tomboy Frankie George, just getting by in the cut-throat world of newspapers is hard enough. The Hourglass Factory is set in London in 1912 and the suffragette movement is reaching fever pitch. In 2013 she received a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award for the opening chapters of The Hourglass Factory. Lucy Ribchester was born in Edinburgh and studied English at the University of St Andrews and Shakespearean Studies at Kings College London. The story of an extraordinary heroine living in an extraordinary time, it is vivid and surprising in its telling, intelligent and ambitious in its scope, sad and beautiful and unforgettable.Lucy Ribchester brings together suffragettes and trapeze artists in a page-turning historical fiction. Gripping, seductive, and mastefully written, The Glimmer Palace is a page-turning story of glitter and splendor, drama and love, friendship and identity. From urchin to maid, teenage war bride, tingle-tangle bargirl, model, and script typist, Lilly is eventually transformed into one of Germany’s leading film stars and a partner in a remarkable love story that will span decades and continents-and be inextricable from the history unfolding around it.
When fellow orphan Hanne takes Lilly beyond their stone confines, introducing her to the seedy glamour of Berlin’s notorious nightlife, it begins for Lillly a trajectory of reinvention. The illegitimate, soon orphaned daughter of a cabaret performer, she lands at a Catholic orphanage where she finds refuge and the first in a string of friendships that will change the direction of her life. Set against the rise and fall of Berlin and the innovations in art that accompanied it all, The Glimmer Palace brilliantly weaves together the story of one orphan girl’s remarkable journey from poverty to film stardom, with an illuminating account of an astonishing history.Īs the clock chimed the turn of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite took her first breath.
The deprivation of World War I and the build-up to World War II. ‘The debaucherous celebration of the cabaret-era. – The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite (2008 also entitled The Glimmer Palace)īegin with: The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite She has spoken at numerous book festivals, taught at Arvon and was a judge and mentor for the Scottish Boom Trust’s New Writers Award.
Biographical information: A former arts and features journalist, she also writes novels for adults, children, short stories, radio plays for the BBC.
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