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Katie Khan

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Katie Khan's first novel, Hold Back the Stars, was published in the UK by Doubleday (Penguin Random House) and in the U.S. by Gallery (Simon & Schuster) in 2017, and translated into twenty-one languages.

A film of Hold Back the Stars is in the works at studio Lionsgate, to be directed by Justin Baldoni (Five Feet Apart) from a screenplay by Christy Hall (I Am Not Okay With This), produced by Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen (Strange Things and Arrival).

Her second novel, The Light Between Us, was published in 2018. Katie is a writer from London who also works for a major film studio on a magical British film franchise.

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The End of Men

by Christina Sweeney-Baird (Goodreads Author)

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The Glass Hotel

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The Hate U Give

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Katie Khan has read An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire	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
A slow burn of a novel that examines the aftermath of a crime - a young woman is raped and murdered in a small Australian town. The novel follows her sister and a female journalist covering the case. With knife-like precision, Emily Maguire tears ope ...more
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Katie Khan wants to read The Whisper Man by Alex North (Goodreads Author)	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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Katie Khan wants to read The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix (Goodreads Author)	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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Katie Khan rated a book it was amazing Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier	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
Probably one of the best novels ever written. Atmosphere, characters, place as a character in its own right... And oh, the melodrama! Delicious. Some dated elements: a character wearing blackface at a fancy dress party, and the depiction and descript ...more
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Katie Khan has read Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton (Goodreads Author)	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
I thought this was very good. Well-written with great prose, pacy, breathless. Intriguing to set a school shooting in the UK.
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Katie Khan has read Shine, Pamela! Shine! by Kate Atkinson	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
I will read anything Kate Atkinson writes, but this certainly has the WTF factor! 😄
Sep 20, 2020 07:54AM · 2 likes · like · see review

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Quotes by Katie Khan

“First love can break you. But it can also save you.”
― Katie Khan, Hold Back The Stars

tags: first-love, heartbreak, love

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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, 23.6%

Una vacante imprevista de J.K. Rowling

19 votes, 21.3%

El juego de la corona de Evelyn Skye

10 votes, 11.2%

La razón de estar contigo de W. Bruce Cameron

8 votes, 9.0%

La esposa entre nosotros de Greer Hendricks

8 votes, 9.0%

Reino de fieras de Gin Phillips

7 votes, 7.9%

Invierno asesino de Kate A. Boorman

4 votes, 4.5%

Maldad de Tammy Cohen

4 votes, 4.5%

Tocar las estrellas de Katie Khan

3 votes, 3.4%

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

0 votes, 0.0%

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Katie’s Quotes

“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

tags: love

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