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Theresa Smith

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in Australia
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Music, Social Issues, Media, History, Literature

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Literary fiction with a cup of Earl Grey on the side, living with a Welsh Cardigan Corgi on Darumbal land, where the river meets the sea.

Former Challenge/Team Coordinator and Historical Fiction Editor with the Australian Women Writers Challenge.

Instagram @tesssmithwrites

Book Review: By Her Hand by Marion Taffe

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Peak District, Mercia, AD 910: a young girl, Freda works hard to avoid her father’s temper, while longing for his approval. She loves foraging in the woods and hearthside stories of heroes. Secretly she thinks in poetry and dreams of one day being able to write; her quills are grass stalks and sticks, her parchment the sky, the earth, her skin. But Freda’s world is at war, and when

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Lemongrass Bay

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In The Arms of Sleep

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“There are some things in life that just are. They are meant to be, and to fight against them is to ensure your own loss.”
Theresa Smith, Somebody I Used to Know

“I loved him. In a completely platonic, best friend, would not even go there if you were the last guy on earth, sort of way.”
Theresa Smith, Somebody I Used to Know

“I felt like an integral part of my being had just been ripped out of me, only to have it replaced with something that did not belong.”
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Topics Mentioning This Author

“Forever is composed of nows.”
Emily Dickinson

“And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.”
Zadie Smith, On Beauty

“You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it.”
Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.”
Jonathan Carroll, Outside the Dog Museum

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”
Emily Dickinson

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