Polly Hope
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Polly Hope was a British artist, designer and author. Hope created artworks in a variety of mediums, including paintings, portraits, sculpture, textiles and ceramics. Examples of her artworks are in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Hope wrote three books under the alias Maryann Forrest. Her first novel ‘Here (Away From It All). It was described by The Guardian as an ‘adult Lord of the Flies’ and it was highly praised by Anthony Burgess as a terrifying and true study of the total lack of rapprochement that can occur in a Mediterranean community between the indigenous people and the inevitable expatriate bunch.
