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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jonathan McCambridge

UNCOVERED: Author s discovery of book about nazi olympics inspired belfast novel - Caught on Camera

A Belfast writer has told how the chance discovery of a book of photographs in Queen’s University about the 1936 Berlin Olympics led to the concept of her debut novel.

Set in post-Troubles Belfast, The Stamp Of Beauty by Fionola Meredith tells the story of a young married woman who begins an intense affair with an older man as a way of escaping her manipulative mother.

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