Elizabeth Buchan

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| pseudonym = Elizabeth Buchan

| birth_name = Elizabeth Mary Oakleigh-Walker

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|05|21|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Guildford, Surrey, England, United Kingdom

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| occupation = Novelist, critic

| nationality = British

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| period = 1985–present

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| notableworks = Consider the Lily,
Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman

| spouse = Benjamin William Alastair Buchan (1974–present)

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| awards = RoNA Award

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Elizabeth Buchan, née Oakleigh-Walker (born 21 May 1948) is a British writer of non-fiction and fiction books since 1985. In 1994, her novel Consider the Lily won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association,{{Citation|title=Awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association|url=http://www.romanticnovelistsassociation.org/index.php/awards|date=2012-10-07}} and she was elected its eighteenth Chairman (1995–1997).{{Citation|title=Past RNA Officers|url=http://www.rna-uk.org/index.php?page=pastofficers|access-date=17 April 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311040656/http://rna-uk.org/index.php?page=pastofficers|archive-date=11 March 2016|url-status=dead}} Her novel, Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman (2001), has been made into a television film for CBS.

Biography

=Personal life=

Elizabeth Mary Oakleigh-Walker was born on 21 May 1948 in Guildford, Surrey, England,{{Citation|title=Elizabeth Buchan at Barnes & Noble |url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writer.asp?cid=1068334 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110121032333/http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writer.asp?cid=1068334 |archivedate=21 January 2011 |df=dmy }} the daughter of Major Peter Oakleigh-Walker and Eleanor Mary Peters. In the 1970s, she obtained a double degree in English and History at the University of Kent at Canterbury.{{Citation|title=Elizabeth Buchan's Official Website|url=http://www.elizabethbuchan.co.uk}}

On 20 April 1974, she married Benjamin William Alastair Buchan (b. 1948), grandson of the novelist and politician John Buchan. They have one son, Adam Peter Alastair Buchan (b. 1980), and a daughter, Eleanor Rose Buchan (b. 1983).{{Citation|title=Thepeerage.com A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe|url=http://thepeerage.com/p30511.htm}}

=Writing career=

She started working as a blurb writer for Penguin Books (1974–1989), and later, since 1989 as fiction editor at Random House. After the publication of her third novel, she became a full-time writer. She lives in London. Her short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in magazines. She has been a judge for Whitbread (now Costa) Awards, and has chaired the Betty Trask and Desmond Elliot Awards and reviews for the Sunday Times. She is also a patron of the Guildford Book Festival and the National Academy of Writing.

Bibliography

{{Citation|title=Elizabeth Buchan at fantasticfiction|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/elizabeth-buchan/}}

= Standalone novels =

Daughters of the Storm (1988)
Light of the Moon (1991)
Consider the Lily (1993)
Perfect Love (1995)
Against Her Nature (1997)
Secrets of the Heart (2000)
The Good Wife (2003) {{aka}} The Good Wife Strikes Back (US title)
That Certain Age (2004) {{aka}} Everything She Thought She Wanted (US title)
Separate Beds (2010)
Daughters (2012)
I Can't Begin to Tell You (2014)
The New Mrs Clifton (2016)
The Museum of Broken Promises (2019). Corvus. {{ISBN|9781786495280}}.
Two Women in Rome (2021). Corvus.