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Helen Slavin


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Helen Slavin was born in Heywood in Lancashire in 1966. She was raised by eccentric parents on a diet of Laurel and Hardy, William Shakespeare and the Blackpool Illuminations. Educated at her local comp her favourite subjects at school were English and Going Home.

After The University of Warwick she worked in many jobs including, plant and access hire, a local government Education department typing pool, and a vasectomy clinic. A job as a television scriptwriter gave her the opportunity to spend all day drinking tea, living in a made-up fantasy world and getting paid for it (sometimes).

Helen has been a professional writer for fifteen years. Her first novel The Extra Large Medium was chosen as the winner in the Long Barn Books competition run ...more

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Average rating: 3.54 · 1,015 ratings · 180 reviews · 25 distinct works • Similar authors
The Extra Large Medium
3.33 avg rating — 606 ratings — published 2006 — 12 editions
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The Stopping Place
3.37 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions
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Crooked Daylight (The Witch...
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Cross My Heart
3.73 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions
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Slow Poison (The Witch Ways...
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Borrowed Moonlight (The Wit...
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Little Lies
3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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The Ice King: A Witch Ways ...
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The Hedgehog Child: A Witch...
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To the Lake
4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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Crooked Daylight Slow Poison Borrowed Moonlight Crow Heart The Ice King: A Witch Ways ... Breaking Bones: A Witch Way... The Witch Ways Whispers: Wh...
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“I think about Sam sometimes now and I realize that he is walking around with a fake set of memories about our time together. Our time together did not exist. I was not spending it with him.”
― Helen Slavin
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“The past is where we should not be.”
― Helen Slavin, The Extra Large Medium
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“Hail fellow well meet on the highway to madness. Madness is a small town very far away. Most of us, at some point, find we probably could walk there. Others have a road cave in and dump them there.”
― Helen Slavin, The Extra Large Medium
tags: crazy, madness
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