Patricia le Roy

Patricia le Roy was born in Liverpool, and holds a degree in French from the University of Sussex. After graduating, she moved to France and worked rather haphazardly as a teacher, translator and journalist before finding her niche (and material for her future books) as a research editor at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a US-funded news station broadcasting to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

Patricia has two daughters and two grandsons. She lives in Paris, and has travelled extensively in Europe, America and Asia.

Her books are mainly historical fiction and political thrillers (aside from a couple of excursions into romantic comedy that were written to stay afloat in a period of deep family crisis). Her works are set in places where the individual is not generally allowed to determine his own life, and include Bolshevik Russia, Soviet Central Asia, the Third Reich, and the German Democratic Republic. Patricia makes a point of travelling to all the locations used in her books -- at least those that are still there -- to make sure the details are right, get the feel of the place, breathe in the air. At Auschwitz, fifty years later, she swears you can still smell burning.

In 1998, THE ANGELS OF RUSSIA was the first e-book to be submitted for the prestigious Booker Prize.

In 2014, Patricia was invited to speak about her experiences with e-publishing at a conference organized by the Moscow Higher School of Economics called "A Book or E-book." Speakers included prominent Russian writers, TV presenters and literary figures.

In 2015, Patricia returned to print for the first time in fifteen years with GIRL WITH PARASOL, a tale of Nazi art looting set against a background of Occupied Paris and wartime Berlin.

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