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Shelagh Meagher

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Nonfiction

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Foreign cultures and more great authors than I can name.

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Shelagh started writing as a six-year-old but didn’t create publishable work until much later. Her first novels were written in Italy. She now lives beside the ocean in Nova Scotia.
She's an avid explorer of human nature in all its wonderful messiness and impossible contradictions, a lover of beauty, music, life, and love itself, a half-assed meditator, and an accomplished counter of blessings.

On Hammet Shore: An old man's last six days on his beloved island
Pearls in the Ashes: A Mongolian epic based on a true story
Colour Studies: A novel about art and love, set in Italy
Gumption: The Practical Woman’s Guide to Living an Adventuresome Life: A straightforward, how-to manual for doing scary stuff
The Spirit of the Garden: A garden design book w ...more

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	Pearls in the Ashes 4.56 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2012 — 4 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
	Gumption: The Practical Woman's Guide to Living an Adventuresome Life by Shelagh Meagher (Goodreads Author), Victoria Roberts (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2014 — 7 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
	Spirit of the Garden by Shelagh Meagher (Goodreads Author), John de Visser really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1995	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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	On Hammet Shore it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 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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against the veil of my consciousness,

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to reveal itself

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Dollybird

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This was a startlingly gentle and insightful set of stories from an author I had always thought only wrote sensational crime fiction, based on the success of 'In Cold Blood'. Who knew he had such beauty in there too? Not me, but I do now. ...more
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