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Molly Aitken

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in Perth, Scotland, The United Kingdom

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Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction

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Molly Aitken is the author of Bright I Burn, a Royal Society of Literature's Encore shortlisted novel (2024). Her debut was The Island Child. Molly's prize winning short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Ploughshares and Banshee, and has been dramatised for BBC Radio 4. ...more

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	Bright I Burn 3.44 avg rating — 3,756 ratings — published 2024	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 Island Child 3.74 avg rating — 1,454 ratings — published 2020 — 13 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
	Celtic Mythology Collection 2 (Celtic Mythology Collection Series) by Brian O'Sullivan (Goodreads Author), William O'Siorain, Diana Powell 3.96 avg rating — 52 ratings — 3 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
	Ploughshares Spring 2023 Guest-edited by Alice Hoffman by Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author), Jennifer Haigh (Goodreads Author), Mary Gordon 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings	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
	Taking Flight: Short Stories by New Sheffield Writers (Comma Short Story Course Book 15) by Molly Aitken (Goodreads Author), Dawn Ashford, Linton Greeny 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	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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“You never know the reasons behind why a person behaves a certain way. Even if they hurt someone else or do something you can’t understand, then they will have had a reason. You don’t have to forgive them but you may feel lighter in yourself if you do. But sometimes it is too much to forgive.”
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“a mother can never be what her child wants, she can only try to be what her child needs,”
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“Once I was hit by lightning and caught fire. My skin still wears the white scars like branches. I am a rare case. Once brightly I burned, I drew them all to me and consumed them all, unwittingly and wittingly, in my fire.”
― Molly Aitken, Bright I Burn

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