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Yvonne Sanders

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I'm addicted to writing. I've cut my writing teeth on my other lives as a mother and school teacher - plenty of writing fodder there! And on my other other life as an educational writer - mostly Science and Biology. I write adult and children's fiction. I've written a couple of novels, some children's stories and lots of short stories for adults.

Writing is my therapy! It makes me calm and happy; it forms me into a better person.
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Average rating: 4.38 · 13 ratings · 6 reviews · 12 distinct works

	Raising Hope 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Stranger really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2016 — 2 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
	Sure Fire 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014	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
	Vigil 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014 — 2 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
	Heinemann Biology 2 Student Workbook 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
	Pearson Biology Queensland 11 Skills and Assessment Book 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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April Flash Fiction 2023

This year our April Flash Fiction took on a new direction, with members of the team from previous years taking on the organisation as a personal project to support each other and keep the fun going. Each day they provided a new prompt to inspire our #30words30days stories. This year's over-arching theme was COMMUNITY. Once again, writers shared their stories and their s

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Yvonne Sanders has read The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (Goodreads Author)	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
In this extraordinary feat of a novel, Virginia Evans has curated the many letters of Sybil van Antwerp, revealing a complex and flawed woman with whom we can both find fault and empathise. Sybil’s letters—to and from her children, her brother, her s ...more
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Yvonne Sanders has read Always Home, Always Homesick by Hannah Kent (Goodreads Author)	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
In this exquisite memoir, Hannah Kent invites us on an intimate journey of discovery and becoming. Discovery of self and of Iceland, its people and culture. Becoming—the metamorphosis of the girl to the woman, the student to the scholar, the curious ...more
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Yvonne Sanders has read The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt	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
It’s hard to quantify Helen DeWitt’s fabulous The English Understand Wool. Seventeen-year-old Marguerite, the product of an unconventional upbringing, mostly in Marrakesh, visits Scotland’s Outer Hebrides with her mother to purchase tweed, before arr ...more
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It’s hard to quantify Helen DeWitt’s fabulous The English Understand Wool. Seventeen-year-old Marguerite, the product of an unconventional upbringing, mostly in Marrakesh, visits Scotland’s Outer Hebrides with her mother to purchase tweed, before arr ...more
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Yvonne Sanders wants to read In a Common Hour by Sita Walker	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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Yvonne Sanders wants to read Unsolved (Cal Lovett Files, #1) by Heather Critchlow	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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Yvonne Sanders has read There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak (Goodreads Author)	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
There Are Rivers In The Sky is a breathtaking sweep of a story spanning Victorian England and ancient and contemporary Mesopotamia, and bound together by the waters of the River Thames and the River Tigris, and the intrinsically intertwining lives of ...more
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