LUCY ADLINGTON
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@historywardrobe @historywardrobe www.lucyadlington.com www.historywardrobe.com
“Kate is a powerful mix of understanding and demanding.”
New York Times bestselling author Lucy Adlington is also a dress historian with more than twenty years experience researching social history. She runs History Wardrobe, a company which presents costume-in-context talks across the world.
Lucy’s YA novels have been longlisted for the CLIP Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for many other book awards including the Manchester Book Prize and the Leeds Book Prize. The Red Ribbon, inspired by the dressmakers of Auschwitz, is published in the UK, USA and translated into 14 languages.
Lucy’s history book, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz, was sold on proposal at auction in the UK, USA and 19 translation territories. It reached #4 on the New York Times bestseller list (paperback non-fiction) the week after publication, peaked at #2 and remained in the NYT charts for six months. Her new heartbreaking narrative history, Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust, is published in 2025.
Lucy lives on a farm in Yorkshire.
lucy’S BOOKS
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz, UK Hodder, USA Harper, 2021; Summerland, Hot Key Books, 2019; Women’s Lives and Clothes in WW2, Pen & Sword, 2019; The Red Ribbon, Hot Key Books, 2017; Stitches in Time, Random House Books, 2015; Fashion: Women in World War One, Pitkin Guides, 2014; Great War Fashion, The History Press, 2013; Night Witches, Hodder Children’s Books, 2013; Burning Mountain, Hodder Children’s Books, 2010; The Glittering Eye, Hodder Children’s Books, 2009; Cherry Heaven, Hodder Children’s Books, 2007; The Diary of Pelly-D, Hodder Children’s Books, 2005.
