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Zoë Collins

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"Zoë Collins is an Irish author based in County Clare. Her writing explores themes of trauma, survival, healing, and human connection, drawing on lived experience and emotional truth.

With a reflective and compassionate voice, she weaves intimate personal narrative with themes of resilience and self-discovery. A lover of nature, poetry, and the arts, she lives by the Atlantic coast, where the landscape continues to inform and ground her work."

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Now that's the official introduction out of the way, here's a bit more about me...

While I could talk for Ireland, I'm not actually a people person, and prefer the solitude of my own company. That said, I love being around those closest to me, including our goofy nine-year-old Boxer - w
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📚The Ratings I Give & The Reviews I Write📚

I've been thinking a lot recently, about why I enjoy writing reviews so much, and I realise it's something I want to clarify - both for myself and for anyone who reads what I share.

My reviews are, first and foremost, for me.

They are a way to capture how something made me feel in a specific moment. What resonated, what didn't, what lingered after I turned the last page, any messages of meaning or q Read more of this blog post »
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“Trauma does not always arrive as chaos, sometimes it arrives as normalisation”
Zoë Collins, Amor Fati: An Incredible True Story of Survival, Hope & Healing

“The hardest escape is from the lies we are told about ourselves, and the detrimental damages they do”
Zoë Collins, Amor Fati: An Incredible True Story of Survival, Hope & Healing

“To be an adult who still believes in wonder and magic, despite all of the trauma, loss, and hardship, is to live with a kind of quiet courage and sense of hope”
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“To be an adult who still believes in wonder and magic, despite all of the trauma, loss, and hardship, is to live with a kind of quiet courage and sense of hope”
Zoë Collins, Amor Fati: An Incredible True Story of Survival, Hope & Healing

“The hardest escape is from the lies we are told about ourselves, and the detrimental damages they do”
Zoë Collins, Amor Fati: An Incredible True Story of Survival, Hope & Healing

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