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Livia Franchini
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Livia Franchini

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Livia Franchini is a writer and translator from Tuscany, Italy. Her recent publications include the novel Shelf Life, her English-language translation of Lorenza Mazzetti’s The Sky Is Falling, and the anthology Too Little / Too Hard: Essays on Writing, Work and Value. Livia is Lecturer in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, where she also coordinates the Goldsmiths Prize. She lives in south-east London with her family.

Books by Livia Franchini

High Tide

The author of Shelf Life returns with a taught, tense, sun-soaked literary noir.

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Shelf Life

A refreshing, heart-wrenching, innovative debut about a young woman rebuilding herself after her partner abandons her, leaving behind only their shared shopping list for the upcoming week.

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