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Gavin Whyte

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Gavin Whyte is a writer from the UK.

He is the author of The Girl with the Green-Tinted Hair, Happiness & Honey, Waiting for Wings, and My Grandad's Hiding Place, a children's picture book on grief.

Visit his Facebook Author Page at: facebook.com/gavinwhyteauthor
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Pen to Peace

Just held my first in-person writing and meditation event. So good. Amazing to see someone who hadn’t written before, and who had a fear of reading aloud, go onto write several pages and then proceed to read it out for all to hear. People are capable of fantastic things, when fear is faced and transcended. […]

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Average rating: 3.89 · 1,170 ratings · 106 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Girl with the Green-Tinted Hair 3.86 avg rating — 1,128 ratings — published 2013 — 6 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
	Happiness and Honey 4.42 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2013 — 5 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
	Waiting for Wings - A Story of Hope 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2011 — 5 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
	A Stolen Youth 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 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
	My Grandad's Hiding Place by Gavin Whyte (Goodreads Author), Laura Skilbeck (Illustrator) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015	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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A Bond Undone (Legends of the Condor Heroes, #2)

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More

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“sometimes there's a part of us which resists help and prefers to suffer.”
― Gavin Whyte, The Girl with the Green-Tinted Hair: A Miraculous Fable

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“Many people look but they do not see. Look with fresh eyes. Look as if you're going to be blind in a minute's time.”
― Gavin Whyte, The Girl with the Green-Tinted Hair

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“What you bring to life by living it the way you want to live it, is your gift to life itself. All you need to do is that which inspires you and makes you happy, and life will write a script which will mould itself around that.”
― Gavin Whyte, The Girl with the Green-Tinted Hair: A Miraculous Fable

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