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Leanne Hunt

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in Durban, South Africa
January 26, 1963

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Leanne Hunt is a South African author who values honest communication and learning. She developed juvenile macular degeneration—a retinal eye disease—in her early teens and has made living with sight loss part of her life story. Her interest in personal growth drew her towards Christianity early on, and has led to study and research in the areas of counselling, spirituality, psychology and theology. Her hobbies include knitting, song writing, singing and reading. She is married with two grown-up daughters who live overseas.

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“Our talent for division, for seeing the parts, is of staggering importance – second only to our capacity to transcend it, in order to see the whole. These gifts of the left hemisphere have helped us achieve nothing less than civilisation itself, with all that that means. Even if we could abandon them, which of course we can't, we would be fools to do so, and would come off infinitely the poorer. There are siren voices that call us to do exactly that, certainly to abandon clarity and precision (which, in any case, importantly depend on both hemispheres), and I want to emphasise that I am passionately opposed to them. We need the ability to make fine discriminations, and to use reason appropriately. But these contributions need to be made in the service of something else, that only the right hemisphere can bring. Alone they are destructive. And right now they may be bringing us close to forfeiting the civilisation they helped to create.”
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Leanne Hunt I'm halfway through writing my new novel and to celebrate I'm giving away a free romance from my Kindle backlist:
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Leanne Hunt I've posted a video on my GoodReads profile page about my novel "Jozi Gold", but it's also an insight into the themes I explore in fiction and my motivation for writing. Please take a look and share if it resonates with you.


Leanne Hunt Special announcement: My new book, "The Unravelling of Ingrid Steele" is free on Kindle till Friday 27 November. Get it now if you like women's fiction! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B018CCHJFQ


Leanne Hunt I'm happy to let you know that my new novel, Blind Walls Bleeding, is now out in ebook format through Amazon, Kobo, Nook, Ibooks and Scribd. Blind Walls Bleeding is the first book in a series entitled The Case Files of Cara Merton, Rehabilitation Specialist, and follows the gripping story of a therapist and her client who fall in love with the same man in a strange boarding-house in Johannesburg. It's an intriguing novel about sight and blindness, generosity and jealousy, reason and madness.


Leanne Hunt Hi everyone! Just to let you know that the Kindle version of my novel Jozi Gold is on promotion at Amazon UK from Monday 10 August to Saturday 15 August. Jozi Gold is a contemporary women's fiction novel about a suburban housewife's rediscovery of self through marital breakdown. Set in south Africa against the backdrop of the 2010 Soccer World Cup. Enjoy!


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