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Guy Burt (he/him) is a novelist and BAFTA award-winning screenwriter.

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Guy Burt I'm just returning to novel-writing (after a 20 year gap). It feels very much like starting from scratch: I'll need a new agent, new publisher... that…moreI'm just returning to novel-writing (after a 20 year gap). It feels very much like starting from scratch: I'll need a new agent, new publisher... that stuff is daunting. But at the same time there's the sense of having spent the time getting to grips with what I want to write, and how I want to do it; so I think the hiatus was necessary.(less)
Guy Burt Living in the world of the book. Getting to know the characters. You miss them once it's finished.…moreLiving in the world of the book. Getting to know the characters. You miss them once it's finished.(less)
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A Clock Without Hands

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"Fifteen-year old Scott lives with his father in the Heights, near a British military facility in 1986; Scott's mom died eight months ago but they don't acknowledge it out loud, or deal with the loss in a healthy manner. Scott's dad pretends to work a" Read more of this review »
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“Sadly, schools deal in the sale and exchange of knowledge, not wisdom."

~ "The Hole”
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“If we could live all our lives in the present, with no recourse to what has gone before or what might yet be, we would be so much the simpler for it. But in fact the here and now of life is all too often the least considered, while thoughts of the past and expectations of the future conspire to tangle our minds with irreconcilable regrets and hopes."

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