Loving Modigliani:
The Afterlife of Jeanne Hébuterne,
by
Linda Lappin

(historical fiction)

 Published December 15, 2020
at Serving House Books

350 pages

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Loving Modigliani
won the Women’s Fiction Prize in the Indie Reader Discovery Awards, 2021.
It was shortlisted for the Daphne DuMaurier Award in 2021,
and shortlisted for the Montaigne Medal for Books of Distinction in 2022.
It was a book pick for the Da Vinci Art Alliance Book Club in 2021.

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SYNOPSIS

In “Katherine’s Wish,” author Linda Lappin delves into the final years of renowned New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield, offering a fictionalized account of her life and the events leading up to her encounter with P.D. Ouspensky and G.I. Gurdjieff.

Lappin meticulously researches Mansfield’s world, crafting a vivid and evocative narrative that transports readers back in time. Drawing from Mansfield’s own journals, letters, and diaries, Lappin weaves together a mosaic of themes and motifs, mirroring Mansfield’s unique writing style.

The novel has garnered praise from Mansfield scholars for its blend of creative storytelling and scholarly accuracy.
Set against a backdrop of Mansfield’s nomadic lifestyle, which takes her from London to the South of France, Italy, Switzerland, and eventually Fontainebleau, searching a cure for her tuberculosis, Lappin explores Mansfield’s relationships with Ida Baker, her companion, and John Middleton Murry, her husband, as well as with writers and intimate friends, Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence.
Incorporating modernist techniques employed by Mansfield and Virginia Woolf, the novel grapples with tragic elements while ultimately celebrating Mansfield’s profound love of life. It conveys a powerful message of joy and fulfillment in the face of adversity.

“Katherine’s Wish” has garnered recognition and acclaim, including being a finalist for the ForeWord Book of the Year Award in fiction and winning the IPPY Gold medal in historical fiction.
It has also received honorable mentions from the Hoffer Awards, the Paris Book Festival, and the Next Generation Indie Awards.

“Katherine’s Wish is first and foremost the compelling story of an artist fighting against time. Long after the last page, thoughts of her linger like an exotic scent, as if, anticipating other guests, she simply stepped from the room to display a vase of flowers or a platter’s mounded figs. –Joyce J. Townsend, Rain Taxi

“The more Katherine Mansfield approaches death, the more she comes to life in Linda Lappin’s Katherine’s Wish. Lappin’s achievement is to succeed where medicine failed and, through her words, give Katherine Mansfield ongoing life. ” –Walter Cummins, The Literary Review

A radio play adapted from the book dealing with Mansfield’s friendship with Virginia Woolf
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Linda Lappin
is the prize-winning author of four novels:
The Etruscan (Wynkin deWorde, 2004),
Katherine’s Wish (Wordcraft, 2008),
dealing with the last five years of Katherine Mansfield’s life,
Signatures in Stone: A Bomarzo Mystery (Pleasureboat Studio, 2013),
and Loving Modigliani: The Afterlife of Jeanne Hébuterne (Serving House Books, 2020). Signatures in Stone was the overall winner of the Daphne DuMaurier prize for best mystery novel of 2013.
She is also the author of The Soul of Place: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci, (Travelers Tales, 2015), which won a Nautilus Award in the category of creativity in 2015.
A former Fulbright scholar to Italy, she has lived mainly in Rome for over thirty years.
Her website is www.lindalappin.net

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“A Public of Two”:
radio play
Adaptation from a chapter of
Katherine’s Wish

March 8, 2022  YORICK RADIO PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS
“A PUBLIC OF TWO”
in celebration of International Women’s Day

“A Public of Two” has been adapted from a chapter of Katherine’s Wish, a novel by Linda Lappin, dealing with the last five years of writer Katherine Mansfield’s life. 

In the summer of 1920, Katherine Mansfield received a frequent visitor to her London home: Virginia Woolf.  Once a week, Woolf took the train from Richmond, disembarking at Hampstead Heath, and walked the rest of the way to Mansfield’s house at 2 Portland Villas. In Mansfield’s studio overlooking the garden, the two women would discuss the craft of writing, while sipping tea prepared down in the kitchen by Ida Baker, Mansfield’s companion. Keen fascination with each other’s work and life and a sharp rivalry united them.  At summer’s end, Mansfield traveled to France seeking a cure for her tuberculosis. Katherine and Virginia would not meet again. Mansfield died in France, outside Paris at the Prieuré of Fontainebleau in January 1923.

Adapted by the author and produced by Rosemary Beech, this radio play features Ellisha O’Donnell in the role of Katherine Mansfield; Rosemary Beech in the role of Virginia Woolf; Alice Gold in the role of Ida Baker; and Jonty O’ Callaghan in the role of John Middleton Murry, Mansfield’s husband.

Yorick Radio Productions is a podcast dedicated to performance and creativity available on all major podcast platforms. https://yorickradio.buzzsprout.com

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Linda Lappin has published four novels:
The Etruscan (Wynkin de Worde, 2004);
Katherine’s Wish, dealing with the life of Katherine Mansfield (Wordcraft, 2008),
shortlisted for Foreward Book of the Year
and IPPY gold medal winner in historical fiction;
Signatures in Stone: A Bomarzo Mystery, winner of the Daphne DuMaurier Award
from RWA for the best mystery novel of 2013;
and Loving Modigliani: The Afterlife of Jeanne Hébuterne.
She is also the author of The Soul of Place: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci,
winner in 2015 of the gold medal in creativity in the Nautilus Book Awards.
She lives in Rome.

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 Release date: 1/7/2021
338 pages
Pulcheria Press

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Deeply in love, a chic Parisian lifestyle before her. Now she’s facing prison for murder.

It’s three days since dual national Mel des Pittones threw in her job as an intelligence analyst with the French special forces to marry financial trader Gérard Rohlbert. But her dream turns to nightmare in London when she wakes to find him dead in bed beside her.
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