![]() ![]() Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America with Interruptions (2002), a travelogue narrating a railway journey around the United States, is the winner of the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. Jenny Diski is also the author of two television plays, A Fair and Easy Passage, written for Channel 4 television, and The Ultimate Object of Desire. The Vanishing Princess (1995) is a collection of short stories.She published a volume of autobiography, Skating to Antarctica, in 1997, which was shortlisted for the Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize for Non-Fiction, and a book of essays, Don't, in 1998. ![]() Subsequent novels include Rainforest (1987), in which a female anthropologist is shocked by her discoveries about human nature Then Again (1990), a complex narrative exploring the life of a persecuted Jewish girl living in fourteenth-century Poland Happily Ever After (1991), the story of the relationship between an eccentric old woman and her landlord, a middle-aged alcoholic and The Dream Mistress (1996), set in contemporary London, about three women whose stories are loosely connected: Mimi, Leah - the mother who abandoned her -and Bella, a tramp who Mimi saves at the beginning of the novel. Her first novel, Nothing Natural, the story of a single parent locked in an abusive relationship, was published in 1986 (reissued 2003). She is a regular contributor to The Observer and the London Review of Books. She was educated at University College, London, and worked as a teacher during the 1970s and early 1980s. ![]()
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