Lavinia Ludlow got into writing because she couldn’t play ice hockey and didn’t have access to a punching bag. She writes about misfits, troubled relationships, and indy artists struggling to make it. Her style combines the three-chords-and-attitude charm of a garage band with the transatlantic wit of something more clever.

Don’t forget to enter our giveaway at the end of this post to win Lavinia’s Novel ‘Single Stroke Seven’ Emotional Gentrification An Excerpt from Single Stroke Seven, Casperian Books Lavinia Ludlow Sunday, Nolan and I drop by the ice rink on 10th and Alma to watch the amateur hockey leagues battle it