The Quickening Ground - Hayden Gabriel

...aspiring author and taken from the vastly popular and successful MA course in Creative writing from the University of East Anglia. While browsing through a second-hand bookshop I came across "The Quickening Ground" a novel by Hayden Gabriel and a graduate of the same course. Naturally I wanted to find out for myself what kind of authors and their books that the course had guided on their way to a successful first novel. There is little to find out ...
...of England and following on the success of this, her first novel, she has gone on to write a new novel "A Wonderful use for Fire". The book jacket gave some detail that suggested this was primarily a romantic novel but one of such passion that it spanned two centuries and two remarkable women. I couldn't resist it and handed over my £1.50 with a sense of exhilaration that I was meant to read this particular book. Was it merely coincidence or fate ...

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