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Margie Orford

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London, The United Kingdom

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Margie Orford is a journalist, film director and author of children’s fiction, non-fiction and school text books.

She was born in London and grew up in Namibia and South Africa, studying at UCT where she wrote her final exams in prison while detained during the State of Emergency. After travelling widely, she did an honours degree at UCT, then worked in publishing in the newly-independent Namibia, where she became involved in training through the African Publishers Network.

In 1999 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and while in New York, worked on an archival retrieval project, Women Writing in Africa: The Southern Volume. She made her crime debut with Like Clockwork, which became a bestseller and was followed by a sequel, Blood Rose. B ...more

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Average rating: 3.77 · 2,026 ratings · 278 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors

	Like Clockwork (Clare Hart, #1) 3.65 avg rating — 457 ratings — published 2006 — 25 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
	Water Music (Clare Hart, #5) 3.78 avg rating — 335 ratings — published 2013 — 16 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
	Daddy's Girl (Clare Hart, #3) 3.65 avg rating — 346 ratings — published 2009 — 20 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
	Blood Rose (Clare Hart, #2) 3.78 avg rating — 277 ratings — published 2006 — 23 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
	Gallows Hill (Clare Hart, #4) 3.83 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 2011 — 20 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
	The Eye of the Beholder 3.76 avg rating — 232 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	Love and Fury: A Memoir 4.44 avg rating — 101 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
	The Clare Hart Thriller Series 4.40 avg rating — 5 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
	Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocols Clean Development Mechanism: Stories from the developing world really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004 — 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
	Rosa sangrienta it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 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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“You brought me back to life, she wrote him once.
That sounds like a line from a sentimental Hollywood movie.
Sorry, she wrote.
Don't be, he returned. I like Hollywood movies, I am sentimental.”
― Margie Orford, The Eye of the Beholder

tags: hollywood, life, sentimental

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“She felt light with the relief of putting the weight of responsibility for herself into the hands of another, and she mistook this unmooring for falling in love.”
― Margie Orford, The Eye of the Beholder

tags: falling-in-love, responsibility

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“When I started I believed that if I spent enough time in the presence of evil, I could absorb it, disperse it, stop the pain by making beauty out of the shattered remains. I was wrong. There was no healing, there's no end to the pain. It just has to be endured.”
― Margie Orford, The Eye of the Beholder

tags: beauty, endure, evil, healing

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