Jessica

• Gender: Female
• Astrological Sign: Sagittarius
• Industry: Arts
• Occupation: Jessica Duchen is a novelist and music journalist
• Location: London : United Kingdom

About Me

Novelist, music journalist for The Independent, orchestra spouse and cat owner. www.jessicaduchen.co.uk

The squish of mud between your toes; how would you live your life as a frog?

Very happily, preferably in the south of Frogland!

Interests

• Playing the piano
• cooking
• theatre
• cinema
• books
• travelling to interesting places with traumatic histories.

Favorite Movies

• Les enfants du Paradis
• Apocalypse Now
• Cinema Paradiso
• Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources
• Un Coeur en Hiver
• Wings of Desire
• Mephisto
• most Eric Rohmer
• most Louis Malle
• most Woody Allen

Favorite Music

• Fauré
• Korngold
• Schubert
• Ravel
• Bach
• Debussy
• Chausson
• Brahms
• Schumann
• Dvorak
• Mozart
• Bach
• Rachmaninov and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Assorted jazz esp Louis Armstrong. World music: tango
• sevdah
• Cesaria Evora
• Cuban
• South African township. Jazz: lots.

Favorite Books

• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
• Possession by A.S. Byatt
• First Love by Ivan Turgenev
• Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
• A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
• Immigrant Blues (poems) by Goran Simic

Jessica's Blogs

	Blog Name	Team Members
	Jessica Duchen's classical music blog
	Paws for thought...?