Lily Dunn
Author, UK
Lily Dunn is a British writer of fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of the novel Shadowing the Sun (2008), the memoir Sins of My Father: A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling (2022), and her essays have appeared in Granta. She is co-editor, with Zoe Gilbert, of A Wild and Precious Life: A Recovery Anthology (Unbound, 2020). She lives in the UK.
Written by Lily Dunn
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Family life
A patchwork family
After my marriage failed, I strove to create a new family – one made beautiful by the loving way it’s stitched together
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Sex and sexuality
Idealising the predator
How did certain French intellectuals get away with preying upon young girls, shamelessly, in public and over decades?
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Biography and memoir
My sister, my mirror
Vanessa and Virginia – intimates in art, adversaries in love. Can we ever transcend the primal envy of the sisterly bond?
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Love and friendship
The joy of intimacy
A polyamorous friend challenges me: are you really happily monogamous or are you just hung up about your philandering dad?
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Biography and memoir
The lost children
The adults who joined Bhagwan’s ashram sought freedom, love and light. Many of their children found darkness instead
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