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Kathryn Hughes


Born
Altrincham, England
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Kathryn Hughes was born in Altrincham, near Manchester. After completing a secretarial course, Kathryn met her husband and they married in Canada. For twenty-nine years they ran a business together, raised two children and travelled when they could to places such as India, Singapore, South Africa and New Zealand. Kathryn and her family now make their home in a village near Manchester. The Letter, Kathryn's first novel, was an international bestseller, and her second The Secret has been highly acclaimed. Kathryn is now at work on her third novel, The Key.~ Headline Publishing

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Average rating: 4.17 · 129,267 ratings · 6,075 reviews · 28 distinct works • Similar authors
The Letter
4.06 avg rating — 66,386 ratings — published 2013 — 62 editions
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The Key
4.27 avg rating — 19,441 ratings — published 2018 — 33 editions
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The Memory Box
4.48 avg rating — 15,987 ratings — published 2021 — 19 editions
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The Secret
4.16 avg rating — 16,618 ratings — published 2016 — 39 editions
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Her Last Promise
4.24 avg rating — 9,380 ratings — published 2019
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George Eliot: The Last Vict...
4.02 avg rating — 342 ratings — published 1998 — 20 editions
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The Letter / The Secret / T...
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THE SECRET: A free sampler ...
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The Key: Exclusive chapter ...
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Os segredos que nos cercam:...
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“They're just weeds, love, they don't belong anywhere.' Her granddaughter stuck out her bottom lip and furrowed her brow.
'That doesn't seem very nice. Everything belongs somewhere.”
― Kathryn Hughes, The Letter
tags: belonging, inspirational, weeds, wisdom
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“It was the small things she took pleasure in. The faint hum of a huge furry bumble bee busily flitting from one flower to another, oblivious to the fact that it was completing a task on which the entire human race depended.”
― Kathryn Hughes, The Letter
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“but the sudden stark reality that things were never going to be the same again.”
― Kathryn Hughes, The Letter
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