Ultramarine

Lucy Weldon’s fiction is inspired by her many years living and working in different countries across Europe and Asia as well as Australia. From migration to climate change to acts of terrorism and political unrest, she writes about some of the 21st century’s defining topics. Born in Hong Kong, Lucy went on to obtain a BA Hons degree in Spanish and a Masters in Responsible Business Practice and Sustainability. She is a published nonfiction author and has worked as an international freelance journalist. A number of Lucy’s short stories have been short- and longlisted in writing competitions around the world. Ultramarine is Lucy’s debut short story collection.

Exquisite and emotionally astute prose...one is moved to weep.-Lorian Hemingway;Lucy Weldon's stories are always sparky, witty, precisely detailed and urgently topical, just as her characters are courageously passionate and curious about the contemporary world in all its glorious and ominous complexity. Like a seismograph Ultramarine slyly registers rumblings along international fault lines-without ever forgetting to acknowledge the primacy of love...- Alan Mahar, author and short story writer;Weldon uses the backdrop of several nations to tell the stories of multiple characters facing challenges that are as intricate as the countries she finds them in.- Akeem Balogun, author of The Storm, a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award;Weldon's collection amazes with the range of places to which it takes us. From story to story, we are moving fast over great global distances but ultimately each piece pulls us to that single place common to them all, the heart. Weldon writes with great care and respect for her diverse characters. There is intimacy across vast spaces as well as those inevitable human distances and disconnections ... a transnational collection.- Adnan Mahmutovic, author of At the Feet of Mothers and Thinner than a Hair