(Photographs by Mark Fiennes)
Jennifer Lash, called Jini, born 1938, was a painter and a
novelist. She wrote her
first novel, "The Burial", at the age of 23 in 1961,
and this was followed
by four more over the next 20 years. She married Mark
Fiennes and with their
six children they moved between Suffolk, Wiltshire,
Ireland and London.
In 1986 she learned that she had cancer and, after a
painful operation, embarked
on a solitary pilgrimage through France to Santiago de
Compostela.
Throughout her illness she continued to write, leaving "Blood
Ties", perhaps her finest
work, behind.
She died from breast cancer on December
28, 1993, at the age of
55. All her books, except of "Suffolk Song Cycle and
Other Poems", "Blood Ties"
and "On Pilgrimage", are currently out of print and
can only be found with
much luck in libraries or second-hand book shops.
"The Dust Collector" (1979 -The Harvester Press
Limited)
Dedication:
For Will Quinlann
Click here to buy some of Jini's books
Drawing by Jennifer Lash
All the above information was taken from the books
themselves. If anybody
knows more about Jini's books, has found reviews or
wants to write reviews
on their own: We value any input here!
Please note: The scans of the book covers and drawings
as well as the info
about the books and the press voices were not taken
from anyone else's site, but
were scanned and written down by Beate herself.
