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Julie Maxwell was a Fellow and Lecturer in English at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. She has published articles on Shakespeare, and on the English Bible. She now lives in Oxford and is currently working on a new novel. You Can Live Forever, her first novel, won the Betty Trask Award.
A fine novel that mixes comedy and darkness the way someone in China once mixed saltpetre and charcoal to produce gunpowder. Reading this novel is like watching a cordite fuse racing towards its dark destination -- Craig Raine Maxwell demonstrates wit, elegance and great insight...hilarious...excellent * Literary Review * You Can Live Forever boasts a down-to-earth charm that is relentlessly witty * Time Out * A quirky sense of humour and sharp intelligence * Scotland on Sunday * Maxwell writes with a vast, tenacious intellect * The Herald *
