Dorothy Koomson

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Hello, my name's Dorothy Koomson and I'll try to make this bit that's all about me as interesting as possible.
I wrote my first novel called There's A Thin Line Between Love And Hate when I was 13. I used to write a chapter every night then pass it around to my fellow convent school pupils every morning, and they seemed to love it.

I grew up in London and then grew up again in Leeds when I went to university. I eventually returned to London to study for my masters degree and stayed put for the following years. I took up various temping jobs and eventually got my big break writing, editing and subbing for various women's magazines and national papers.

Fiction and storytelling were still a HUGE passion of mine and I continued to write short stor...more

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February 2010

february 2010

it's here, it's here !

Publication day, publication day, how I love thee so.

I'll be off out later to visit local bookshops and supermarkets to see if I can see The Ice Cream Girls on the shelves. On the one hand, I want to see them, on the other, I want there to be a space where my books should be because they've all flown off the shelves with people eagerly buying them.

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Books by Dorothy Koomson

Average rating: 3.85 · 10,040 ratings · 1,218 reviews · 15 distinct works

	My Best Friend's Girl 3.91 avg rating — 3,906 ratings — published 2006 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Marshmallows for Breakfast 3.65 avg rating — 1,669 ratings — published 2007 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Goodnight Beautiful 3.97 avg rating — 1,360 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Ice Cream Girls 3.92 avg rating — 1,109 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Chocolate Run 3.75 avg rating — 795 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Woman He Loved Before 4.09 avg rating — 632 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Cupid Effect 3.41 avg rating — 480 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Chocolate Run: AND The Cupid Effect 4.15 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Dorothy Koomson Collection.: Chocolate Run, Marshmallows For Breakfast,My Best Friend's Girl,Goodnight, Beautiful,The Cupid Effect, The Ice Cream Girls 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings	My rating:
	Goodnight, Beautiful ;Marshmallows For Breakfast 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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“Share too much and someone can hurt you.”
― Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

tags: relationships

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“Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.”
― Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

tags: heartache , love

58 people liked it

“When you can't be honest with people, you can't ever relax with them.”
― Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

29 people liked it

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