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An English author of Irish and Scandinavian descent, Stevie O’Connor started writing ghost stories at the age of seven. The teachers would invariably read these out to the class and she got hooked on writing, always with her head in a book or dreaming up stories. She then won the prestigious Edward Burne-Jones Award for Literature when only fifteen. Fifteen years later, she finished and published her first book with an independent London publisher and has been writing novels ever since, being lucky enough to live off her modest royalties.
 

“Writing is an intuitive and instinctive process for me. When I was little, I knew there was something magical about words. I was in awe of the library, the books appeared as infinite as stars, each with another story, a different world. I suppose that in some way, these stories of mine are versions of worlds. Except by now, these characters have become quite real to me; they have their own idiosyncrasies and dispositions and quite frankly, walk around a novel like they own it.

Sometimes it feels like they're letting ME in.”

BIOGRAPHY

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