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Most readers today know Sarah Rayner from her bestselling novel, One Moment, One Morning, which has sold over 250,000 copies in the UK, and is currently being translated into 11 languages. But before that she published two rather different novels – The Other Half (Orion 2001) and Getting Even (2002), and these have been fully revised and updated by the author and just republished by Picador as ebooks.

Sarah's latest critically-acclaimed novel, The Two Week Wait, came out in summer 2012. She calls this is a 'sister' novel rather than a sequel to One Moment, in that it features some of the same characters and is also set in Brighton, yet is a standalone story and there's no need to read one to enjoy the other. Sarah is currently working on he...more


Today I am celebrating the republication of my first two novels, The Other Half and Getting Even as ebooks by Picador.

Since the success of One Moment, One Morning, readers have been asking how they can get hold of these titles, and for a few years they were out of print so the only suggestion I could make was to hunt for second hand paperbacks online.

I'm therefore thrilled Picador UK are reissu... Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.46 · 2,346 ratings · 570 reviews · 4 distinct works · Similar authors
One Moment, One Morning
3.41 of 5 stars 3.41 avg rating — 1,806 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions
The Two Week Wait
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 502 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions
The Other Half
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3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2001 — 8 editions
Getting Even
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions

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One Moment, One Morning by Sarah Rayner
" I enjoyed this book, A very sad story but the positives of how to cope came through. I enjoyed the movement between the stories of each character.
It makes you think how quickly your life could change and certainly made me appreciate some of the l... " Read more of this review »
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" This is a truly good read. Just a moment that changes the course of a few women's life. Easy to read, hard to put down. I got very involved in their lives although the story is only over a few days.
Recommend this as long as you don't mind a tear o... " Read more of this review »
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There's a lot that's great about Gone Girl. As other reviewers have said in their hundreds, it’s an atmospheric and compelling psychological thriller, full of twists. The set-up and structure, where the story is told by a husband and wife in differen...more
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The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz
Distilling decades of therapeutic work into a slim volume that reads like a collection of short stories, Grosz offers an intriguing insight into contemporary psychoanalysis. A married father-of-four announces that he is thinking of coming out, aged 7...more
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"Ah, interesting. I supposed what I liked most was the concept that depression is a gift, and there are learnings to be had from it."
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“What Karen wants to do - needs to do - is cry, but she can't. Here, alone, when she could howl, beat the sofa cushions, scream; now, somehow, she is unable. It's for fear that if she gives in to it, she'll lose all sense of who she is. She is afraid that if she falls apart in private, then she'll fall apart completely. That if she crumbles, like a house in an earthquake, she will disappear down some deep, dark crevasse, and never be able to pull herself out and put herself back together again.”
Sarah Rayner, One Moment, One Morning

“That's the tragedy of falling in love; it brings with it the potential for loss.”
Sarah Rayner, One Moment, One Morning

“She has no regrets; she knows now he could never have made her happy, even though he has, apparently, joined AA, is doing better. But sobriety is his journey, not hers; he needs to do it for himself, alone. Still, she misses him hugely, doesn't feel ready for another relationship yet. But as time passes, she hopes that she might be, eventually, with someone new, easier, kinder.”
Sarah Rayner, One Moment, One Morning

“What Karen wants to do - needs to do - is cry, but she can't. Here, alone, when she could howl, beat the sofa cushions, scream; now, somehow, she is unable. It's for fear that if she gives in to it, she'll lose all sense of who she is. She is afraid that if she falls apart in private, then she'll fall apart completely. That if she crumbles, like a house in an earthquake, she will disappear down some deep, dark crevasse, and never be able to pull herself out and put herself back together again.”
Sarah Rayner, One Moment, One Morning

“That's the tragedy of falling in love; it brings with it the potential for loss.”
Sarah Rayner, One Moment, One Morning




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