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Ruth F. Hunt

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Born

in Bury (It's grim up North), The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.rhunt4.com

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RFHunt1

Genre

Fiction, Contemporary

Influences

David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers, Zadie Smith

Member Since

February 2015

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I'm a writer - fiction, and freelance for the press. I'm based in Lancashire, where I live with Izzy The Literary Cat.

The Single Feather is my debut novel, published by Pilrig Press. It was named as one of 6 'stand out novels of 2015' by Paul Simon The Morning Star.

It features Rachel, a 31 year old paraplegic woman as the protagonist, who is trying to escape from a traumatic past...

I am keen to make my fiction an enjoyable and rewarding read. I'm also passionate about giving more representation in novels, to characters whose voices are ususally not heard.

So, to put it simply, I write about outsiders. After all, aren't we all outsiders to a certain extent? ...more

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The Overstory

by Richard Powers

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This Heat, It's Hell Closing In On Me (...or Life and Death and the Life In-between)

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Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

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Ruth’s Quotes

“Keegan: You feel at home in the world then?
Broadbent: Of course. Don't you?
Keegan ( from the very depths of his nature): No.

John Bull's Other Island”
― Bernard Shaw George

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