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  <name><![CDATA[Cecilia Dart-Thornton]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[..which began when I was discovered, as a baby, in a wooden lifeboat that washed ashore on the rugged coastline of a remote isle in the southern oceans, between Australia and Antarctica. I'd also like to describe my early years on Si-Sique Island, raised with the family of the lighthouse-keeper, Albert Ross, who found and adopted me. . .

Cecilia's Story Continues:
Her origins could not be traced. Who were her parents? Had they been drowned in a boating accident? Where had she come from? Was she of noble blood? Alas, no answers could be found.

Cecilia flourished like a rare orchid, even on that windswept isle,in the rough-and-tumble company of her seven stepbrothers. They taught her fencing, archery and equestrian skills, at which she excelled. Her favourite hobby, however, was writing stories.

Quite recently, at the age of sixteen, she was ‘discovered’ on the Internet when she posted some of her work to an Online Writing Workshop. An editor contacted her by email, and within a few weeks Time Warner U.S.A. had signed Cecilia in a six-figure deal. They published her first trilogy, THE BITTERBYNDE, in hardcover - the first time they have ever done so with a new author.

Cecilia packed her mascara and departed from Si-Sique isle - to the sorrow of her seven handsome stepbrothers, who were all achingly in love with her.
She now lives on mainland Australia with her husband and their two pet dogs, where she continues to write, support animal rights and be fascinated by digital media. Her second trilogy, THE CROWTHISTLE CHRONICLES, is being published world-wide by Tor. Meanwhile her first series has been translated into four languages and is distributed throughout more than seventy countries.

Cecilia’s life alternates between seen and unseen worlds of vivid strangeness, beauty, peril and passion.
It is a little-known fact that most authors actually write their own biographies. Some might say that for Cecilia the boundaries between virtuality and reality are blurred. That is for the reader to decide. Suffice to say, that not all implausible fairytales are devoid of a grain of truth...

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  <title><![CDATA[Henn Architekten - Glass Manufacture]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[TERRA Medienverbund. Orientierungsstufen. Schülerbuch. 7./8. Klasse. Rheinland-Pfalz]]></title>
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