Laura Steven
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Laura Steven is an English novelist. She won the inaugural Comedy Women in Print prize for her novel The Exact Opposite of Okay.[1]
She has used comedy to explore feminist issues in her young adult novels, including an exploration of beauty, in Every Exquisite Thing, her re-telling of The Picture of Dorian Gray[2] and female rage in The Society For Soulless Girls, her re-telling of Jekyll and Hyde. [3]
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Novels[edit]
- The Exact Opposite of Okay. Electric Monkey. 2018. ISBN 978-1405288446.
- A Girl Called Shameless. Electric Monkey. 2019. ISBN 978-1405288620.
- The Love Hypothesis. Electric Monkey. 2020. ISBN 978-1405296946.
- The Society For Soulless Girls. Electric Monkey. 2022. ISBN 978-1405296939.
- Every Exquisite Thing. Electric Monkey. 2023. ISBN 978-0008627355.
References[edit]
- ^ Flood, Alison (10 July 2019). "Jilly Cooper tops inaugural Comedy women in print awards". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
- ^ Steven, Laura (14 September 2023). "Laura Steven on the epiphanies she had while writing Every Exquisite Thing". CultureFly. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
"Girls don't want beauty. Girls want power. And sometimes beauty is the closest substitute."
- ^ Harvey, Fran (7 July 2022). "INTERVIEW: LAURA STEVEN". Narc Magazine. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
"Girls don't want beauty. Girls want power. And sometimes beauty is the closest substitute."
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