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Born in Worcestershire, raised in Warwickshire, Angela Jeff studied drama and Laban dance in Yorkshire, and then moved to London to work in publishing and raise her family. She went to Japan for a month or so in 1986, and stayed there 26 years, reinventing herself as a journalist and writer. She also developed a programme of creative writing, Drawing on the Writer Within, which led to the creation of HOUSEHOLD STORIES/Katei Monogatari (2017). Most recently she published Five of a Feather - a fable for our times. Angela moved into what had been her mother's home in Scotland with her Japanese husband in late 2012. She published Chasing Shooting Stars - her first independent venture - the following year. Here she continues to write, and facili ...more

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	Japón by John Hart Benson (Contributor), Mark Brazil (Contributor), Jon Burbank (Contributor) 4.11 avg rating — 693 ratings — published 1985 — 39 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
	HOUSEHOLD STORIES/Katei Monogatari 4.78 avg rating — 9 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
	Wild Knitting by Angela Jeffs (Goodreads Author) (Consultant Editor), Susannah Read (Executive Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1979 — 6 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
	Five of a Feather 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2020	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
	Chasing Shooting Stars: A South American Paper Trail into the Past it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013 — 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 wonderful read!
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A wonderful and beautifully written book full of wit and unexpected turns. Angela draws you into her world and adventure, in search of her grandfather's mysterious past. You'll be traveling with her, page after page, discovering new family members, unearthing secrets of the past, Read more of this blog post »

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“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
Teilhard de Chardin - French geologist, Jesuit priest, philosopher, mystic (1881-1955)”
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“Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”
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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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