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S.J. King

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Always grateful to readers, and for your reviews.🙏🤗

Writer of dark psychological thrillers, and fun-lover!

As a wife, mother, and daughter, my novels aim to be shocking and twisty, to unpack complex and frightening domestic realities, and modern and troubling dilemmas.

I have two teens, a husband from Northern Ireland, and an Indian street-cat on Prozac. In my free time (um….is there any of that?) I read avidly, write obsessively, post silly content, and am trying to learn to garden…

My work has taken me from documentary making in China in the nineties, into digital innovation and communication for more than thirty years. I’m now global head of Public Affairs focusing on people and planet, including climate, human rights, geopolitics, and respo ...more

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"Wow, this book had me hooked! The dual pov's, the different timelines, it's all so much, but in the best way possible. I'm a big thriller girly and probably take too much pride in being able to figure out the plots, but S.J King had me guessing and n" Read more of this review »
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“Smile Mask Syndrome; a psychological disorder in which people develop depression and physical illness as a result of prolonged, unnatural smiling. It had become prevalent in Japanese women in the service industry, forced to smile as part of their work.”
― S.J. King, Where You Belong
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