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Chris Killen

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I am the author of the novels In Real Life (2015) and The Bird Room (2009).

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	The Bird Room 3.15 avg rating — 324 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Real Life 3.25 avg rating — 209 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brace: A New Generation in Short Fiction by Jim Hinks (Editor), Guy Russell , Charlotte Allen 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Born in the 1980s by Alex Wire, Gareth Story , Lou Perez liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There is a glass girl in my bed. If I ask too many questions she will shatter.”
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“I want to start again. I want to completely start my life again; to make no mistakes this time; to somehow watch my life from behind a screen; to double-click on the options of my life, very carefully and in my own time.”
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