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Interviews

Toby Lloyd on the differences (and similarities) between the U.K. and the States

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Toby Lloyd on the differences (and similarities) between the U.K. and the States

Toby Lloyd grew up in London and studied at Oxford before moving across the Atlantic Ocean to get an MFA from New York University. His upbringing in the United Kingdom and writing studies in America helped shape who he is as a person and as a writer.

His debut novel, Fervor (in America, Fervour in the U.K.), is about a Jewish family in London who discovers their daughter is a witch. Lloyd carefully mediates on religion, family, politics, and education throughout the book while sprinkling horror themes.

We emailed the author to learn more about his past and what drives him as a writer. Check out the Q&A below!

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Ellie Eaton’s debut coming-of-age novel is Divine

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Ellie Eaton’s debut coming-of-age novel is Divine

Ellie Eaton is in limbo. She grew up in England and has lived in America for the past decade. She’s both an English writer and an American one. But she’s also neither.

Her book, like her, straddles between an American adulthood and coming-of-age in a British boarding school. The girls in The Divines are nothing like her and her friends, but the spirit is there. Half of the story takes place in the insulated world of a British boarding school where the real world barely matters. The other half is about one of the girls, all grown up, reckoning with the decisions she made decades ago.

I spoke with Eaton about being a British or American writer, coming-of-age novels, and whether or not she was a Divine via phone.

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