She follows a story that no-one else is interested in after the discovery of the body of a young black woman in a city park fountain. It is the story of a 36-year old unfulfilled wife and mother who leaves her husband so that she can become a newspaper reporter. Lady in the Lake is the title of Lippman’s latest novel, published last week.
Bestselling author, Laura Lippman took me back this week to that era before computers, before everything in newspapers was produced electronically, soundlessly and remotely - and when newspapers themselves were not threatened by extinction.
If there is one magical sound that is unfortunately disappearing off the planet forever it is the rumble of presses churning out printed copies of the day’s news in the bowels of a newspaper office building.
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