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Katie Khan

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Katie Khan is a writer from London whose first novel, Hold Back the Stars, was published to great acclaim, translated into twenty-two languages, and is being adapted into a feature film starring John Boyega and Letitia Wright.

The Light Between Us is her second novel.

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Average rating: 3.52 · 2,706 ratings · 588 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	Hold Back the Stars 3.52 avg rating — 2,306 ratings — published 2017 — 41 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
	The Light Between Us 3.52 avg rating — 400 ratings — published 2018 — 5 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

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My second novel, The Light Between Us, is available in paperback from today. It might be up your street, if you like the sound of whipsmart young women experimenting with time travel... and HEARTBREAK

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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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Ask Again, Yes

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“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.” Wow. I went into this knowing nothing and was blown away by this book. I Who Have Never Known Men is a haunti ...more
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This is a good example of the genre, if you're into the genre. But I think this is the last psychological thriller I'll read this year, for personal reasons: they tend to give me sleep terrors! I am also experiencing some fatigue with the genre. I've ...more
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“First love can break you. But it can also save you.”
― Katie Khan, Hold Back The Stars

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“The thing about first love, Cari, is that it breaks you. It changes everything about who you are for the next person.”
― Katie Khan, Hold Back the Stars

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“She won’t love again in the same unbridled way; she’ll never feel the sharp brightness of her own personality when he gazes upon her, when he draws a spotlight over her and she responds, fully illuminated.”
― Katie Khan, Hold Back The Stars

tags: love, love-hurts, love-quotes, love-story, lovers-sadness

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Y como el año anterior aquí una votación para elegir mis 5 primeras lecturas del siguiente año, 2019. Igual si no han leído ninguna de estas opciones pueden votar el que les parezca más interesante o también pueden no votar ninguno, que nadie los obliga. XD

Rojo y oro de Iria G. Parente

21 votes, 23.3%

Una vacante imprevista de J.K. Rowling

20 votes, 22.2%

El juego de la corona de Evelyn Skye

10 votes, 11.1%

La razón de estar contigo de W. Bruce Cameron

8 votes, 8.9%

La esposa entre nosotros de Greer Hendricks

8 votes, 8.9%

Reino de fieras de Gin Phillips

7 votes, 7.8%

Invierno asesino de Kate A. Boorman

4 votes, 4.4%

Maldad de Tammy Cohen

4 votes, 4.4%

Tocar las estrellas de Katie Khan

3 votes, 3.3%

Zero de Morgan Dark

2 votes, 2.2%

Las Tradiciones Son Para Romperse de L.C. Julia

1 vote, 1.1%

Por siempre, unidos de Taylor Jenkins Reid

1 vote, 1.1%

El taller de escritura de Jincy Willett

1 vote, 1.1%

La última mentira de Kimberly Belle

0 votes, 0.0%

Búscame de J.S. Monroe

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“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

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“On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: childhood, magic

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“Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

tags: heart

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“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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