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Raven Taylor

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Born

in South Shields, The United Kingdom

Website

http://raventaylorauthor.com

Genre

Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Romance

Influences

Irvine Welsh Peter Mullan Nick Hornby Frank McCourt
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Member Since

June 2012

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Raven Taylor is a British novelist writing character-driven social realism rooted in emotional truth rather than spectacle. Her work explores love, loyalty, masculinity, and inherited trauma, often set around music and subculture, but focused squarely on relationships and moral ambiguity rather than nostalgia.

Her novels examine people who love badly, cling fiercely, and struggle to reconcile who they were with who they are trying to become. She is particularly interested in chosen families, the afterlives of subculture, and the ways grief, guilt, and belonging shape adult identity.

Raven’s writing is uncompromising but compassionate, refusing neat redemption arcs while remaining deeply invested in the humanity of her characters. She lives an ...more

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A note on the books I write

Dear readers, I am still here, I am still alive.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about why I write the stories I do, and who they’re really for.
Most of my novels sit somewhere in the space of British social realism. They’re character-led, messy, and uncomfortable at times — stories about love, loyalty, control, and the damage people carry with them. Punk and music culture run through some of the bo Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 4.32 · 41 ratings · 16 reviews · 22 distinct works

	If I Fall Back Down - A Punk Rock Memoir 4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Winter 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings	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
	If I Fall Back Down Again: A Punk Rock Memoir 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Blood and Brass 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 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
	Cane (The Dark Angels Series 2) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012	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
	Don't Worry 'Bout Me it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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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