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100 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2008
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Kate Thompson
16 books28 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
Kate Thompson (born 1959) is an Northern Irish actress and romantic novelist who also writes as Pixie Pirelli (the writer heroine of Sex, Lies and Fairytales). She was born in Belfast and studied English and French at Trinity College, Dublin. She spent many years as an actress in theatre and television, most notably in the Irish drama serial Glenroe. She married the actor Malcolm Douglas in 1985 and has a daughter Clara (born 1987). In 1989 she won the Best Actress Award in the Dublin Theatre Festival. Her first novel, It Means Mischief, published in 1999, became a bestseller. The Blue Hour was shortlisted for the Parker Romantic Novel of the Year.
Love Lies Bleeding is remarkable in that the first 25 chapters are available free by e-mail and the final part of the book, The Clandestine Chapters, can be purchased bound with silk and printed on home-made paper.
Kate Thompson (born 1959) is an Northern Irish actress and romantic novelist who also writes as Pixie Pirelli (the writer heroine of Sex, Lies and Fairytales). She was born in Belfast and studied English and French at Trinity College, Dublin. She spent many years as an actress in theatre and television, most notably in the Irish drama serial Glenroe. She married the actor Malcolm Douglas in 1985 and has a daughter Clara (born 1987). In 1989 she won the Best Actress Award in the Dublin Theatre Festival. Her first novel, It Means Mischief, published in 1999, became a bestseller. The Blue Hour was shortlisted for the Parker Romantic Novel of the Year.
Love Lies Bleeding is remarkable in that the first 25 chapters are available free by e-mail and the final part of the book, The Clandestine Chapters, can be purchased bound with silk and printed on home-made paper.
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December 15, 2022
Another ODS book ticked off, I'm slowly working my way through them and discovering new authors as I work my wat through this fantastic series of books.
The Open Doors Series is a series of books written by Irish authors. They are short stories that can be read fairly quickly, or in one sitting. They range from about sixty pages to about a hundred and ten pages.
A young woman living in a quiet Irish village who dreams of going to and living in Dublin to see the big city life enters a computation to go onto be an extra in the country's leading soap-opera. She wins and gets to see that soap stars are not what they seem on the big screen. She also get to see her much sought after Dublin and just what city life is really like.
She gets to understand that some times you have right what you need in the very place you call home, home is her little village.
This was not my favourite ODS but it did make me laugh and I enjoyed reading it so a win win really.
The Open Doors Series is a series of books written by Irish authors. They are short stories that can be read fairly quickly, or in one sitting. They range from about sixty pages to about a hundred and ten pages.
A young woman living in a quiet Irish village who dreams of going to and living in Dublin to see the big city life enters a computation to go onto be an extra in the country's leading soap-opera. She wins and gets to see that soap stars are not what they seem on the big screen. She also get to see her much sought after Dublin and just what city life is really like.
She gets to understand that some times you have right what you need in the very place you call home, home is her little village.
This was not my favourite ODS but it did make me laugh and I enjoyed reading it so a win win really.
January 13, 2013
writing from the land of leprechaun and diddly Irish land
June 21, 2016
Good example for Adult Literacy Learners. A couple of sentences could have been better constructed, but this may facilitate a discussion during a Literacy or English lesson.
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