Alan Kennedy

Alan Kennedy lives near Marciac in the South West of France, home to an annual international jazz festival. He has worked as a professional psychologst in the UK, Australia and France and is the author of "The Boat in the Bay" trilogy for children. His novel "Lucy" is a love story set in World War II France. "A Time to Tell Lies", also set during World War II, is a psychological thriller - a fictional treatment of two of the most significant wartime disinformation projects. Alan Kennedy is also author of "Oscar & Lucy" an "autobiographical biography" of his mentor, the Australian psychologist Oscar Oeser. Oeser worked in Germany with Hitler's favourite psychologist, studied at Cambridge alongside some notorious spies, headed Hut 6 at Bletchley Park, and organised a raid on Hitler's Berghof. Kennedy's most recent work of non-fiction is "A Thoroughly Mischievous Person: The Other Arthur Ransome" a psychoanalytic discussion of the life and work of England's most famous children's author. His most recent fiction is the novel "The War and Alex Vere". Based entirely on true accounts of disinformation projects in London and Paris, this extraordinary novel addresses the dilemma of the 'justified sacrifice' in times of war. Shifting between a fearful London and a fatally compromised France, SOE agents Alex and Justine, are finally caught up in the liberation of Paris. They are destined to discover the ultimate human cost of the "official lie" – a secret so grotesque that, even now, it is judged best forgotten.Further information about Alan Kennedy's books, is available on the Lasserrade Press website: www.lasserradepress.com