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Lidija Hilje

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Lidija Hilje is a Croatian writer and book coach. After over ten years of trying cases before Croatian courts, she traded in her legal briefcase for a sharpened pencil, and has been writing and working professionally with writers ever since — all in English as her second language. Slanting Towards the Sea is her first novel.

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This book is the definition of “no plot, just vibes”: atmospheric to the point of feeling almost claustrophobically otherworldly. Sokcho in winter is cold, isolated, and smells of fish and octopus. The arrival of a Westerner opens a perfect entryway ...more
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This suspenseful, thought-provoking, genre-bending novel is as much a slow-burn revenge story as it is a razor-sharp exploration of the cancel culture, racism, toxic relationships, and self-sabotage. Shelley Hu is hunkering down in Florida, working a ...more
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THE IMAGINED LIFE is a story about a man on a quest to understand the slow and painful unravelling of his father decades ago, in order to understand the echoes these events have created in his own life. The writing is impeccable. Sparse, unadorned, a ...more
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When Chrissy and Frank meet in California in early 1970, they fall in love not only with each other but also with The House of Tomorrow, Elvis and Priscilla’s honeymoon hideaway in Palm Springs, which they become determined to recreate in England. Bu ...more
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“It wasn't until years later that I saw her words for what they really meant. If people want to love you, they do, no matter how flawed you are. But if they aren't inclined to love you, nothing you say or do, no amount of your own goodness, can make them change their mind.”
― Lidija Hilje, Slanting Towards the Sea

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“I had been hiding for so long I didn’t believe it possible that someone could see me. But someone had. And that felt even worse.”
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“So much of seeing is in that willingness to look.”
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