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Hello, my name's Dorothy Koomson and I'll try to make this bit that's all about me as interesting as possible.
I wrote my first novel called There's A Thin Line Between Love And Hate when I was 13. I used to write a chapter every night then pass it around to my fellow convent school pupils every morning, and they seemed to love it.

I grew up in London and then grew up again in Leeds when I went to university. I eventually returned to London to study for my masters degree and stayed put for the following years. I took up various temping jobs and eventually got my big break writing, editing and subbing for various women's magazines and national papers.

Fiction and storytelling were still a HUGE passion of mine and I continued to write short stor ...more

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Every Smile You Fake ExtractPrologue

Please take care of my baby. You’re the only one I can trust with him. His name is Arie.
I don’t want to do this, but I have to. So please don’t try to find me. You’ll put him in danger.
I’ll be in touch as soon as I can. X

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16 May, Shoreham

‘This isn’t so much a question as an observation,’ he says.

We’re in Smithdowne Community Centre, a large commun

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“Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.”
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“When you can't be honest with people, you can't ever relax with them.”
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