Lesley McDowell
@lesleymcdowell
Author of LOVE AND OTHER POISONS 'enthralling, a beautifully structured tale' The Scotsman; CLAIRMONT 'Riveting...clever portrait of a fascinating woman' The Times @wildfirebooks.bsky.social Repd by @sheilland.bsky.social ExJoycean Still Glaswegian she/her
So summer has finally arrived in Scotland and so I immediately went to a waterfall near Glencoe to cool down 😆
I have a short story in the new @dundeegothic.bsky.social about a seance that took place in Atlantic city in 1922....
They don't call Glasgow 'dear green place' for nothing. Our city centre shared garden ❤️
Never more grateful for a north-facing Victorian basement flat than on a hot day
Currently on hols to a favourite hotel, brought them a copy of Love and Other Poisons for their library, and today they gifted us this!
Made it to the top of Spinalonga then remembered I have to get down 😳😆
'Real person who writes, at her real book event last night, in a real bookshop, with real readers' alert #NoThanksAI
After a wild old windy night+day, first evening after the clocks went forward is looking fine! ❤️ Glasgow
14 years ago today, giving a talk at Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris about my book Between the Sheets: the Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th Century Women Writers. What a dream event that was!!
I don't think there's any better feeling as a writer of historical fiction than finding out about someone's secret passage in their house, that biographers didn't know about, and which CHANGES EVERYTHING 😊
It was in the early hours of this morning in 1857 that Emile L'Angelier staggered home, already dying from arsenic poisoning. Four months later, his lover, Madeleine Smith, stood trial for his murder. But did she do it?
The paperback of my historical crime novel, Love And Other Poisons, is out today!
It's the 'Are You a Victorian Murderess' quiz Part 2! #LoveandOtherPoisons
HOW TO TELL IF YOU'RE A VICTORIAN MURDERESS quiz question part 2 c) Tell your rich Papa to pay him off, but risk being dumped AND thrown out on to the street d) Pretend you're in love with ex-boyf to delay his blackmail attempts e) poison him with arsenic? (2)2)
HOW TO TELL IF YOU'RE A VICTORIAN MURDERESS Quiz q 1 You're 22 beautiful & rich. But your ex-boyf (older poor) will show your fiancé (new, rich) saucy love letters you once wrote unless you marry him instead! Do you a) give in and marry him b) let him tell your fiance and risk being dumped (1/2)
I've always liked 'problematic women' and for #InternationalWomensDay I'm nominating Jean Leckie, aka Mrs Conan Doyle, who was a trained opera singer, acclaimed horse rider and Medium
Found it! From 1988 so a bit dated now but still useful and one of the first replies to Berger's Ways of Seeing