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Laurie Petrou

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Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary

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Heather O'Neill, Michael Chabon. ...more

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January 2012

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Most of my adventures take place inside books.

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‘Love, Heather’ is out Oct 8th!

Hi Folks!

I just got my own beautiful copy of ‘Love, Heather’, and tore open the box with excitement. There is nothing quite like seeing copies of a book you suffered and sweat over in its finished form.

I am beyond excited, my friends. I am having two launches: one in my little town of Grimsby, Ontario, at my local coffee shop where I wrote the damn thing. And I think (hope? pray?) that we

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“...we'd learned enough growing up to know that secrets can't be split in more than half or they start to crumble, and you find pieces of them all over town in everybody's pockets...”
― Laurie Petrou, Sister of Mine

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“She ignored nagging doubts about her solitary life; she was very good at compartmentalizing. It made her appear cold or detached. The truth was the opposite. She had a deep well of love, but it was not accessible to just anyone.”
― Laurie Petrou, Stargazer

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“There were so many ways a story could go. Like a painting. So many different ways they could be finished. You could even let someone else have a go at it. But eventually, you had to take control of it yourself. You just had to choose a version, and then it became yours.”
― Laurie Petrou, Stargazer

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