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Welcome to the website of the bestselling author Paula Byrne
Paula's new book, Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead, entered the Top Ten of the Sunday Times bestseller list in the week that it was published. To read more about "this delicious biography" (Washington Post), click on WAUGH.
Paula, who is an internationally renowned Jane Austen expert, is also the author of the Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson
"Byrne’s gift as a writer is her ability to combine scholarship with turbo-driven narrative power. Mad World is vibrant, absorbing, stranger than fiction." Sunday Times
"Among the finest biographies I have ever read … Ms Byrne, the consummate researcher, offering much material that's new, but with all the flair of a popular star-novelist, has done an incredible job." The Huffington Post
"Paula Byrne has produced a strong and romantic book that is at once a touching story of deep friendships, an astute piece of literary criticism and an important contribution to the canon of Waugh biography." Alexander Waugh, The Literary Review
"a marvelous book, warm, witty, and enormously readable" Daily Telegraph
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