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Laura Thompson explores the importance of pubs in British culture through the lens of her grandmother Violet's life story as the first woman in England to be given a publican's license in her own name. Laura Thompson is also the author of "Take Six Girls: The Lives Of The Mitford Sisters", recently sold to television.

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Laura Thompson explores the importance of pubs in British culture through the lens of her grandmother Violet's life story as the first woman in England to be given a publican's license in her own name. Laura Thompson is also the author of "Take Six Girls: The Lives Of The Mitford Sisters", recently sold to television.
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Autorenporträt
Laura Thompson read English at Oxford. Her first book, The Dogs, won the Somerset Maugham Award. While living in Newmarket she wrote two books about horse racing, followed by a biography of Nancy Mitford (reissued 2019), a major study of Agatha Christie and a book about Lord Lucan. The Six, a group biography of the Mitford sisters, published in the US in 2016, was a New York Times bestseller. Her most recent book, Rex v Edith Thompson, was shortlisted for a CWA Gold Dagger award, and her biography of Agatha Christie - recently published in the US - was nominated for a 2019 Edgar Allan Poe Award.