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Dorothy Koomson

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Hello, my name's Dorothy Koomson and I'll try to make this bit that's all about me as interesting as possible.
I wrote my first novel called There's A Thin Line Between Love And Hate when I was 13. I used to write a chapter every night then pass it around to my fellow convent school pupils every morning, and they seemed to love it.

I grew up in London and then grew up again in Leeds when I went to university. I eventually returned to London to study for my masters degree and stayed put for the following years. I took up various temping jobs and eventually got my big break writing, editing and subbing for various women's magazines and national papers.

Fiction and storytelling were still a HUGE passion of mine and I continued to write short stor ...more

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“Share too much and someone can hurt you.”
― Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

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“Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.”
― Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

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“When you can't be honest with people, you can't ever relax with them.”
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Polls

April Side Read Nominations ~ 1st Poll
Top 5 books move onto final round

We Are the Brennans

by Tracey Lange

7 votes, 24.1%

Spells for Forgetting

by Adrienne Young

6 votes, 20.7%

The Lies We Told

by Diane Chamberlain

4 votes, 13.8%

The Child on Platform One

by Gill Thompson

3 votes, 10.3%

My Other Husband

by Dorothy Koomson

2 votes, 6.9%

Every Vow You Break

by Peter Swanson

2 votes, 6.9%

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

by Michelle Obama

1 vote, 3.4%

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

by Anthony Bourdain

1 vote, 3.4%

Salem Falls

by Jodi Picoult

1 vote, 3.4%

The Club

by Ellery Lloyd

1 vote, 3.4%

The Friends We Keep

by Holly Chamberlin

1 vote, 3.4%

Summer in the South

by Cathy Holton

0 votes, 0.0%

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