Katherine Webb

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Katherine Webb (2014)

Katherine Webb (* 1977 ) is a British writer .

Life

Katherine Webb grew up in the county of Hampshire in the south of England and studied history at the University of Durham . She then worked, among other things, as a waitress and saleswoman as well as in libraries , at times she lived in London and Venice . Katherine Webb also worked as a maid in mansions where she said she experienced "feelings of frustration." She started writing in parallel with her temporary jobs .

Create

2011 finally her first novel was The Legacy (German Secret Legacy ) on the market. This is about the sisters Erica and Beth, who return to the stately home of their childhood after the death of their grandmother. The work became a bestseller , with the following novel The Unseen (German The House of Forgotten Dreams ) Katherine Webb reached first place on the bestseller list of the Spiegel . This takes place in the early 20th century and addresses the confrontation of different social classes. In 2013, her third novel was published under the title A Half Forgotten Song (German Das Verborgene Lied ), in which the supposed rural idyll is again thematized. In The Misbegotten ( The Strange Girl ) from 2014, she tells of the dangerous search for a mysterious family secret in a British country house. In contrast, in The Night Falling ( Italian Nights , 2017) Webb abducts the reader with a tragic love story to southern Italian Apulia. The English Girl ( The Promise of the Desert ) and The Hiding Places ( The Women on the River ) are from 2018 . In her works, Katherine Webb creates a glimpse behind the facade of the crumbling British Empire and puts an entire village under suspicion of murder.

Webb's novels are published worldwide in 24 languages. In the German-speaking area alone, their titles have sold more than 1.3 million times.

Works

The Secret Legacy (German first edition, 2011)
  • The secret legacy . Diana, Munich 2011 (original title: The Legacy , translated by Katharina Volk), ISBN 978-3-453-35546-0 .
  • The house of forgotten dreams . Diana, Munich 2012 (original title: The Unseen , translated by Katharina Volk), ISBN 978-3-453-35715-0 .
  • The hidden song . Diana, Munich 2013 (original title: A Half Forgotten Song , translated by Katharina Volk), ISBN 978-3-453-35680-1 .
  • The strange girl . Diana, Munich 2014 (original title: The Misbegotten , translated by Katharina Volk), ISBN 978-3-453-29165-2 .
  • Italian nights . Diana, Munich 2017 (Original title: The Night Falling , translated by Katharina Volk), ISBN 978-3-453-35822-5 .
  • The promise of the desert . Diana, Munich 2018 (Original title: The English Girl , translated by Katharina Volk), ISBN 978-3-453-35823-2 .
  • The women by the river . Diana, Munich 2018 (Original title: The Hiding Places , translated by Babette Schröder), ISBN 978-3-453-29207-9 .
  • The fault of that summer . Diana, Munich 2019 (Original title: The Disappearance , translated by Babette Schröder), ISBN 978-3-453-29208-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katherine Webb . In: Lovelybooks , accessed August 27, 2014.
  2. ↑ Katherine Webb . In: Histo-Couch , accessed August 27, 2014.
  3. ↑ Crimes in the English Summer of Katherine Webb . In: Bonner General-Anzeiger , November 6, 2012, p. 15.
  4. ↑ a b Claudia Rundel: The main thing is to write . In: Taunus Zeitung , October 19, 2013, p. 3.
  5. ^ The Legacy . In: Goodreads , accessed August 27, 2014.
  6. ↑ England's society under the microscope . In: Harburger Ads and News , December 1, 2012, p. 12.
  7. ↑ Katherine Webb reads from "The Hidden Song" . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , October 23, 2013.
  8. ↑ Pretty scary . In: Münchner Abendzeitung . October 22, 2014, p. 2 .
  9. ↑ Annette Traks: "Italian Nights" by Katherine Webb. Review. In: Huffington Post. August 31, 2016, accessed July 2, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Let's talk about love - and eroticism . In: Münchner Abendzeitung . November 12, 2016, p. 26 .
  11. ^ A village under suspicion of murder . In: Lübecker Nachrichten . July 1, 2018, p. 22 .
  12. ↑ literary festival "Lit.Love" in Munich. In: Zeit Online. November 11, 2016. Retrieved July 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Webb, Katherine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1977