Lily Brett

Just Like That is a novel by Lily Brett about Holocaust survivors in the United States. Up to a point, it is autobiographical: The author was born in Germany in 1946 and came to Melbourne, Australia with her parents in 1948. She is married to painter David Rankin; they have three children and currently live in New …

In New York Lily Brett turns her razor-sharp gaze on a city which has entertained, inspired and perplexed her for the decade she has lived there in a SoHo loft apartment with her artist husband. Lily muses on the dearth of single men and crime, the effect Monica Lewinsky has had on body image and New York street …