Sentences with phrase «novel took several years»
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Outlander: A Novel by Diane Gabaldon — I have several friends who have recommended this series to me for years now so I picked it up at our used bookstore and took it on our family holiday to Colorado.
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Along the way, several others join them, including Fineboy, a teenager who had joined the country's militants to protest foreign countries taking Nigerian oil; 16 - year - old Isoken, who is searching for her parents; and Oma, a woman escaping her wealthy husband, an oil industry employee who — as described in one of the novel's many great lines — treats her like expensive shoes, «to be polished and glossed but, at the end of the day, to be trodden on.»
Kerry spent half her life talking about writing a novel, then several years at Candis magazine reviewing other people's but it wasn't until she took some online courses with the UCLA that the dream started to morph into reality when her debut, The School Gate Survival Guide, was picked up by HarperCollins.