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Welcome to the website for the novelist Lena Kennedy and her daughter, Angela Kennedy Smith (who writes as Ursula Kennedy Smith). Lena was one of the best-loved contemporary novelists of her generation. On this site Angela will tell you more about both her mother’s writing and her own, and introduce a previously unpublished Lena Kennedy novel – The Pig in the Parlour, which has an Irish setting.

Biography

Find out more about Lena Kennedy

Books

Works by Lena Kennedy, including a previously unpublished novel

Angela Kennedy Smith

More about Lena’s daughter, who writes as Ursula Kennedy Smith

Contact

Get in touch with Lena’s daughter Angela via the web form

Books by Lena Kennedy

Lena’s previous novels were published by Hodder and Stoughton. Her posthumous novel, The Pig in the Parlour, has been published by her daughter Angela.

Books by Angela Kennedy Smith (writing as Ursula Kennedy Smith)