5 Quotes & Sayings By Lucy Foley

Lucy Foley is the bestselling author of seven novels, including her series featuring neurosurgeon Dr. Emma Beckett. She was born in London and spent the first years of her life in South Africa, before moving to Australia at age five. Her father was a former headmaster who fought in World War II Read more

Her mother waited on tables at the Berkeley Hotel in Sydney, where she met her future husband. They moved to England when Lucy was six years old and then to New Zealand, where she lived for the next twenty-five years, often relocating with her father. She returned to England when Lucy was in her teens and attended boarding school there.

After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in English Literature, she began teaching English and History at a London comprehensive school.

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In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that. Lucy Foley
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It was then I thought of Corsica, the place we had discovered together. I craved the wind, the sun and salt, the simplicity of the island. Lucy Foley
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Now the city is at its loveliest. The crowds of summer and autumn have gone, the air has a new freshness, the light has that pale-gold quality unique to this time of year. There have been several weeks of this weather now, without a drop of rain. Lucy Foley
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That spring was the start of everything, for me. Before then, I might have been half-asleep, drifting through life. Lucy Foley