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Gavin Whyte

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in Huddersfield, The United Kingdom

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Spirituality, Fiction, Self Help

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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.

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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 · 1,169 ratings · 106 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Girl with the Green-Tinted Hair 3.87 avg rating — 1,127 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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	Happiness & Honey by Gavin Whyte (2013) Paperback 0.00 avg rating — 0 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
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Winterwood

by Patrick McCabe

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THE WHOLE ELEPHANT REVEALED

by Marja de Vries

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Gavin Whyte and 14 other people liked Krystal's review of Winterwood: "What the heckin jeezuz did I just read??? Wow. This book is so deeply disturbing and confusing and dark and creepy and ... *dear lord, what a mess.* The prose is disjointed and the narrator is completely unreliable, which means you have to put most of" Read more of this review »
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Gavin Whyte and 16 other people liked Sheldon's review of God Is a Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism: "I spent Friday night and today reading the first half of this book, two of the four sections. It is a MIND OPENER. For years I have struggled with many aspects of Judaism, things I did not understand, difficult question about life, and all those ques" Read more of this review »
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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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