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Lena Coakley was born in Milford, Connecticut and grew up on Long Island. In High School, Creative Writing was the only course she ever failed (nothing was ever good enough to hand in!), but, undeterred, she went on to study writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Toronto, Canada. Witchlanders is her debut novel.


Everyone in the book industry says it: At the Forest of Reading awards, authors are treated like rock stars. Well, I’m a skeptical girl and didn’t quite believe the hype, but after going to the Festival of Trees ceremony yesterday as a White Pine awardnominee, I can tell you: I felt like a rock star. I stood on a stage as fans screamed for my book–my book!–, people stood in long lines for my au...

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Published on May 16, 2013 07:48 • 4 views
Average rating: 3.71 · 1,211 ratings · 285 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors
Witchlanders
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 1,196 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
On the Night of the Comet
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2004
Mrs. Goodhearth and the Gar...
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2005

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“An assassin's first murder is himself. He kills the man he was.”
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“We live between the two great silences: the silence that existed before the world began, and the silence that waits for us at the end of all things.”
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Sangria Thanks for your friendship, Lena! :D


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