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Rebecca Russell

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Born

Birmingham, The United Kingdom

Website

https://kiftsgatepress.com/authors/rebecca-russ...

Genre

Fiction, Contemporary, Humor and Comedy

Influences

Marian Keyes, Joanna Trollope, Mavis Cheek, Jenny Colgan

Member Since

January 2017

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I have been writing scripts and poetry for many years. I am an award winning published poet and playwright and my work is regularly performed all over the world by professional and amateur groups.

Chapters is my first novel and is based on one of my scripts. I had the framework in place and the action and dialogue but I was missing a lot of extra words! It was a revelation and a joy to bring it to life for a book.

I write warm and witty combinations of words, often with a darker theme running through and I love to make readers and audiences laugh and cry.

Born in Birmingham and now living in Devon via Hertfordshire. I live with my husband, our third child who is just about to fly the nest and a dog who thinks he is a human and a cat who thinks ...more

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Average rating: 4.55 · 53 ratings · 30 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Chapters: Sometimes you have to go back before you can move forward 4.66 avg rating — 44 ratings — 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
	The Regina Monologues: A One-act Parody by Rebecca Russell (Goodreads Author), Jenny Wafer 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2009 — 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
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CHAPTERS began life as a screenplay I wrote after being selected for Creative England's Emerging Talent Cohort in the south west of England, and was loosely based on a news article I read about a couple raffling off their bookshop because they couldn't sell it on the open market.

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Rebecca Russell liked Lucy Snow's review of Chapters: Sometimes you have to go back before you can move forward: "Could not put this book down. Loved the relationships between Eve and the rest of the characters. Audibly gasped at one of the plot twists towards the end. There are no cliche story lines and no “mid-book-lull”. Would highly recommend this for a feel" Read more of this review »
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