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Rebecca Stonehill is an author living in Norwich with her husband and three children. She spends her time working on her prose and poetry and runs Magic Pencil, an initiative to give children greater access to creative writing and poetry. Rebecca has had numerous short stories published over the years, for example in Vintage Script, What the Dickens magazine, Ariadne's Thread and Prole Books but The Poet's Wife (Bookouture) is her first full-length novel, set in Granada during the Spanish Civil war and Franco's dictatorship. Her second novel, The Girl and the Sunbird, was published by Bookouture in June 2016. Her third novel, The Secret Life of Alfred Nightingale, is set in Crete in WW2 and the 1960's. Rebecca's fourth book came out in 2022 ...more

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	The Secret Life of Alfred Nightingale 4.34 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2017 — 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
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A History of Understanding in Nine and a Half Steps

Last night I read a poem at Kimberley Moore’s mid-week Music & Words event in Norwich which I was invited along to. I love the magic that Kimberley weaves at these events – it’s a beautiful, intimate pottery studio with fairy lights and beautiful artwork and plants and it feels like we’re in someone’s living room.

This is my ‘proem’ that I performed (it’s not quite poetry and it’s not quite prose)

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