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Elizabeth Knox
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in Wellington , New Zealand
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Why I wrote The Absolute Book
Why I wrote The Absolute Book
The Absolute Book owes its existence to my sense of coming back to life as time and events intervened between me and some bad years. Years during which my mother was dying of Motor Neuron Disease (ALS) and my brother-in-law was killed in much the same way the novel’s protagonist’s sister. That feeling—of sudden freedom from responsibility, but with indelible m
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The Absolute Book
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2019
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23 editions
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Dreamhunter (The Dreamhunter Duet, #1)
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2005
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28 editions
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The Vintner's Luck (Vintner's Luck, #1)
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1998
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Dreamquake (The Dreamhunter Duet, #2)
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2007
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36 editions
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Wake
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2013
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7 editions
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Mortal Fire
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2013
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8 editions
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The Angel's Cut (Vintner's Luck, #2)
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2009
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20 editions
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Billie's Kiss
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2002
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16 editions
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Daylight
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2003
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8 editions
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Black Oxen
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2001
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8 editions
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“You fainted and I caught you. It was the first time I'd supported a human. You had such heavy bones. I put myself between you and gravity. Impossible.”
― The Vintner's Luck
― The Vintner's Luck
“Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had been - sharp, piercing, and snatched, like a breath while swimming in surf.”
― Dreamhunter
― Dreamhunter
“I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I'd be left alone to read”
― Dreamhunter
― Dreamhunter
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Dreamhunter by Elizabeth Knox, 365p
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The Wildings by Nilanjana Roy, 312p
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The Guns Above by Robyn Bennis, 352p
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Samantha
Nov 28, 2011 02:58PM
Looking forward to your short story in the Steampunk anthology, only one more to go before I get to it!
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Thanks for the friendship, Elizabeth. I love your books!
