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Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis Minnesota in 1941. Her father Lloyd Parry Tyler was an Industrial Chemist and her mother worked as a Social Worker,Phyllis Mahon Tyler. They lived in several Quaker Communties before settling down in Raleigh, North Carolina. She managed to obtain useful information for her future novels so this was an excellent background for her to grow up in as she developrd a desire to write books. The other thing that inspired ...
...Duke University and she studied under an American Reynolds Pace who was also a novelist. In 1963 she married Taghi Mohammed Modarressi who is an I ranian born psychiatrist and she went with him to McGill University which is in Montreal, Canada. During her time there she was able to write her first two novels which were IF MORNING EVER COMES & The TIN CAN TREE. Then in 1967 they moved to Baltimore Maryland where she spent her time bringing up her ... Read review

Advantages: She writes well
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Joanna Trollope is a well known author,she was born in Cotswald in the year of 1943 on 9th December. She went to State school education in Surrey and was awarded a scholarship to enable her to go to Oxford, After attending Oxford , she then became a Civil Servant and after that a teacher. Then in the 1980s she strated to write firstly her historical novels under another name which was Caroline Harvey and towards the end of the 1980s she then started ...
...modern society. Joanna married twice and she has two daughters, two stepsons and a grandmother. She now lives alone. She is a very disciplined person when she is writing and her typical day for writing is she rises at 7am when she has breakfast after that she walks the dog and do chores such as laundry and from about 9am she begins to write until about 2pm. She continues to write up until 2pm without any breaks. Then after that she tackles any ... Read review

Advantages: good descriptions of places
Disadvantages: not very interesting

I have read two of Rosie Thomas' books, 'every woman knows a secret' and 'moon island'. I found that the endings of both books were dissapointing. The stories took a while to get started in both cases, and were quite uneventful throughout, with about two interesting occurences in each. i found that due to the style of writing a lot of concentration is needed to follow sections of writing even though the details of the story arent complicated. i wouldnt ... Read review

Advantages: Well written and interesting read
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...been singing the praises of P.J. Tracy for the past year. So under considerable pressure I finally relented and decided to give it a go. I am always conscious when someone recommends an author to you that opinions vary and what one person loves anything may loathe. The Author: This was a complete shock to me for a start. A book written by two authors! In this case it was a mother/daughter combination of Traci and PJ Lambrecht. I'm so glad I found ...
...bothered, as I would have expected the book to be very disjointed. This was their first best selling thriller. These were quickly followed by three more also best sellers, 'Snow Blind', 'Dead Run' and 'Live Bait'. All sharing this successful idea of two related writers. The story of the book: An elderly couple, the Kleinfedts are killed in a church in Kingsford County, Wisconsin. The local Police see this as a random act against two highly unpopular ... Read review

Advantages: FANTASTIC READ
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pj tracy, authors of want to play live bait, dead run and snow blind, they are a mother and daughter writing team, who live at defferent locations in america, pj live in minnesota and traci live in southern california, but amazling come up with these fanstastic books, they are apparently doing more not sure when that will be, hopfully soon, i'm not going to tell you any thing about these books, your better of experiencing this yourself (dont want ... Read review