A. M. Bauld

Alison Bauld, Australian-born composer and writer, has lived in the UK since 1968. She was a piano pupil of Alexander Sverjensky at the NSW Conservatorium of Music, (1956-1960), before studying drama at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, (NIDA). This was followed by a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Sydney and a doctorate in composition from the University of York. She currently lives in London.

Alison Bauld’s second novel The Lodgers is very different from Mozart’s Sister. Now she has turned her hand to writing a black comedy set in suburban London around the year 2000. It is a fairytale with a sting in its tail, a satire of a penny-pinching family in London. They are just making do with the help of paying student lodgers and as harassed, self-centred parents with three hapless children (one trapped in permanent babyhood) plus various lodgers they inhabit a world where nothing is quite as it seems. With two murders… a bizarre French holiday… and a plethora of peculiar lodgers, what happens to this odd but strangely endearing family teases expectation and takes you by surprise.