Lauren Berry

Emma Derringer is an assitant at an advertising agency in London. When her overbearing boss isn't looking, she pursues her career as a writer, sending articles, poting blogs and trying to get noticed for her talent, instead of the mistakes on her PowerPoint presentations. Clementine Twist arrives home from a stint in New York with a hefty overdraft, a crushed heart and a waning confidence in her burgeoning career as a screewriter. Emma and Clem realise it's time to ramp up their efforts and think about quitting the day job.

A Novel

Living the Dream

A collection of emotionally charged poetry set amidst a gothic vision of the South from the perspective of a teenage girl the day after she has survived a rape and refuses to tell anyone what has happened. Original.

The Lifting Dress

Lauren Berry's second collection follows a young bride as she becomes a stepmother in the domestic maze of a Floridian suburb where she discovers she is unable to conceive a child of her own.

The Rented Altar

Selected for the National Poetry Series by Terrance Hayes. Lauren Berry's bracing and emotionally charged first collection of poetry delivers visions of a gothic South that Flannery O'Connor would recognize. Set in a feverish swamp town in Florida, The Lifting Dress enters the life of a teenage girl the day after she has been raped. She refuses to tell anyone what has happened, and moves silently toward adulthood in a community that offers beauty but denies apology. Through lyric narratives, readers watch her shift between mirroring and rejecting the anxious swelter of her world, until she ultimately embraces it with the same violent affection once tendered to her.

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