Lisa Martineau Reads From Her First Novel As The Hudson School's Think Thursdays Lecture and Film Series Continues

The Hudson School’s Think Thursdays Lecture and Film Series Continues Its Winter Season With Critically Acclaimed Author and Former Journalist Lisa Martineau Reading From Her First Novel, All The Old Familiar Places

Author and former journalist Lisa Martineau will read from and sign copies of her first novel, All The Old Familiar Places at The Hudson School’s Think Thursdays Lecture and Film Series, which continues this month at 7:00 p.m., Thursday, February 24, 2011, at 601 Park Avenue, Hoboken.

Set in a working-class neighborhood in war-torn London, where the older generation is haunted by ‘our war back when we was young,’ All The Old Familiar Places chronicles the damage wrought by a woman’s lie, a girl with ‘ideas above her station,’ and her romance with the enigmatic American whom she loves ‘more than life itself.’ The book also takes the reader into the American’s experience of ‘his’ London during ‘the most luxurious siege in history,’ while exploring the tensions inherent between two worlds and two wars.

Lisa Martineau is the author of two critically acclaimed works of non-fiction, Politics & Power: A Biography of Barbara Caste (A Financial Times biography of the year, 2000) and Caught In A Mirror: Reflections of Japan, of which The Economist said, “Best of all she writes with wry humour...and is the perceptive observer... who has penetrated Japan more deeply than most... Few [books] do as well as Martineau’s in revealing the honne (the Japanese word for the way things really are, as opposed to tatemae, the way they are said to be).”

A former journalist, she was the Tokyo Correspondent for the Guardian newspaper, political columnist for Eurobusiness, and the Foreign Editor of The Mail on Sunday. Other publications she has written for include The Financial Times, The Economist, and The International Herald Tribune.

Ms. Martineau currently lives in New York, where she is at work on another biography of an extraordinary woman. Her biography of Barbara Castle will be released in paperback in June of this year.

The Hudson School’s (THS) Think Thursdays Series educates and informs the over-18 crowd in this lecture and film series aimed at adults. The series features guest speakers, local authors, and films
covering a broad range of topics. Past participants include the authors Marc Aronson, Marina Budhos, Deborah Clearman, Roya Movafegh, and chiropractor and wellness expert Dr. Laura Brayton.

Think Thursdays are held once or twice a month from 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. through spring 2011. Admission is
$7 for THS family members and $10 for the general public. All are welcome to attend and proceeds benefit The Hudson School.

"Parents often tell me they wish they could go back to school to study with our wonderful teachers at The Hudson School.” said Suellen Newman, THS founder and director. “Our new speakers' series, Think Thursdays, is intended to fulfill that desire and to provide an educational setting where adults can sit in on a
provocative lecture or attend a film screening. Why should children have all the fun? Dinner table conversations will be that much more interesting if parents bring home interesting tidbits to share on a
variety of topics. We hope people will drop in from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. to learn something new and stimulating."

The Hudson School, a small, independent school for grades 5-12 accredited by Middle States Associationof Colleges and Schools, was founded in 1978 by Suellen Newman. A community of scholars, it offers academically motivated and creative children a rigorous and broad college preparatory curriculum with strong emphasis on the arts. The school’s need-blind admissions policy assures that its doors remain open to the families of every qualified child regardless of the family’s ability to pay. For information about the
admissions process, please contact Mrs. Newman, founder and director, at 201.659.8335, ext. 107, or visit http://thehudsonschool.org/.

All media inquiries for The Hudson School should be directed to Jahna Balk, THS Communications
Coordinator and Development Director, at 201.659.8335.
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