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Catherine Taylor

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Nowadays I live in London with my husband, two children and five cats, but I was born and grew up on the small British island of Guernsey in the English Channel.

My mother was a professional landscape artist, who spent her life painting the beautiful beaches and countryside of Guernsey. And so, I grew up in an environment where it was a very normal thing to want to make a living from your art. Which is just as well, because I’m someone who always knew she wanted to be a writer, and if I’d had parents who’d harboured hopes of me becoming a tax accountant or a corporate lawyer, they’d have been sorely disappointed.

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Beyond the Moon

4.17 avg rating — 3,679 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions
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Publication Day - The Many Seas to Guernsey is out!

The Many Seas to Guernsey, after five years of careful research and writing, is finally out in all formats! And I do hope you enjoy reading it as much as I loved writing it.

"In the last golden years before Europe erupts into WWII a young English writer and a German Roman Catholic priest-in-training meet by chance on the small British island of Guernsey – and are drawn into a forbidden, all-consum Read more of this blog post »
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"Reading a book written by your sister is strange, not because it's clear she's a genius (I already knew that), but because of how familiar it all feels. It's Lucy in a book, from the woman creating something amazing in secret just to prove she can, t" Read more of this review »
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"This is the most self-indulgent, pointless book I have ever read. I would string together a series of poorly crafted run-on sentences to attempt to describe this terrible work, but then I would be simply imitating Roth.

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“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
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Stephanie Fitzgerald Thanks, Catherine! 😃📚📚📚


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