Episode 16: Lorraine Brown

Lorraine Brown spent her childhood devouring the Sweet Dreams teen romance series, so it’s only fitting that her debut novel Uncoupling is such a wonderful modern romance, published by Orion Books. 

Lorraine’s career has hardly been a straightforward one, but her path towards her writing debut is inspiring nonetheless. From fashion journalism to temp jobs, with drama school in between and topped off with a postgraduate diploma in psychodynamic counselling, it’s no wonder that Lorraine’s characters are such three-dimensional, multi-faceted people and more to the point, that Lorraine was such an interesting Babbler.

Uncoupling was long-listed for the Bath Novel Award in 2016, which spurred Lorraine on and kept her working on it in Waterstones Hampstead’s café. Being one of 11 mentees on Penguin Random House’s WriteNow programme in 2018, where she worked with an editor on the novel for a year, further kept Lorraine charging forward. On came the deal with the literary agency. Then the book deal. Then the Babble interview. And the rest is history.