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Catherine Banner

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in Cambridge, The United Kingdom

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Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult

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Catherine Banner was born in Cambridge, UK, in 1989 and began writing at the age of fourteen. She studied English at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, before moving to County Durham where she worked as a secondary school teacher. She has published a trilogy of young adult novels, The Last Descendants.

Her debut adult novel, The House at the Edge of Night, tells the story of the 2008 financial crisis and 95 years of European history through one family and their bar on a tiny Mediterranean island.

Her work is translated into 21 languages. She lives in Turin, Italy, with her husband and young son. She is currently working on her next novel, The Lit and Unlit World, which follows the women of a vine-growing family in the mountains of north Italy.

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Average rating: 3.92 · 14,674 ratings · 1,752 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	The House at the Edge of Night 3.98 avg rating — 13,398 ratings — published 2016 — 62 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
	The Eyes of a King (The Last Descendants, #1) 3.27 avg rating — 1,002 ratings — published 2008	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
	Voices in the Dark (The Last Descendants, #2) 3.53 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 2009	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 Heart at War (The Last Descendants, #3) 3.81 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2015 — 5 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
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	De lange dagen van Castellamare by Unknown Author, Catherine Banner (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 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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Catherine Banner answered April's question: I won a copy through a GoodReads giveaway and could not believe it is your debut adult novel. Please write more! :) Do you get connected to your characters? When you're done writing about them, do you "miss" them? Feel their lives still on your heart? Thank you, April, for these kind comments about the book. I do absolutely become connected to the characters while writing. I still have a very clear sense of them as people all these years later. Part of that, I think, is because the characters alre See Full Answer
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“Sometimes grief needed a focus, an object”
― Catherine Banner, The House at the Edge of Night

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“The stories that the poor loved best, it seemed, were sad ones.”
― Catherine Banner, The House at the Edge of Night

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“The kind of place one could not love without effort, and yet, she understood now, the only place on the face of the whole earth that she herself loved.”
― Catherine Banner, The House at the Edge of Night

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Septembrie 2023 - Europa de Vest

Cum să oprești timpul de Matt Haig

38 votes, 45.2%

Conacul Slade de David Mitchell

11 votes, 13.1%

Toba de tinichea de Günter Grass

11 votes, 13.1%

Casa de la Marginea Nopții de Catherine Banner

10 votes, 11.9%

O singurătate prea zgomotoasă de Bohumil Hrabal

8 votes, 9.5%

Numele meu fie Gantenbein de Max Frisch

6 votes, 7.1%

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