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Lily Graham grew up in South Africa and is a former journalist.

As a child she dreamt of being an author, and had half-finished manuscripts bulging out of her desk drawers, but it wasn't until she reached her thirties that she finally finished one of them. Her first books were written for children, but when her mother was diagnosed with cancer she wrote a story to deal with the fear and pain she was going through - this became her first women's fiction novel, which was published by Bookouture (Hachette) in 2016.

Since then she has written six novels, covering many topics, her first four novels were a blend of light hearted women's fiction and drama, but in recent years she has found her niche in historical fiction, after she wrote The Island ...more

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Average rating: 4.23 · 31,654 ratings · 2,422 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Paris Secret 4.13 avg rating — 6,969 ratings — published 2018 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Child of Auschwitz 4.31 avg rating — 6,669 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Restaurant in Paris 4.33 avg rating — 6,451 ratings — published 2022 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Island Villa 4.04 avg rating — 3,481 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The German Girl 4.43 avg rating — 2,786 ratings — published 2021 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Only Light in London 4.15 avg rating — 1,086 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Cornish Christmas 4.08 avg rating — 1,027 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cornish Escape 4.33 avg rating — 824 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Christmas at Hope Cottage 3.96 avg rating — 872 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Postcard 4.26 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Her Forgotten Hours

I am delighted to tell you about my latest novel, Her Forgotten Hours!

This is a story that has been brewing for years and I am so thrilled to finally get to share it with you. It’s about a female pilot who steals a plane to find and save the man she loves. I think if you’ve enjoyed The English Patient, you might like this, as Frankie faces memory loss after an accident. The only thing she know

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“I would have thought that I suddenly believed in fairy tales and second chances, and I have never been accused of either’ – he squeezed her hand, and sniffed – ‘till now.”
― Lily Graham, The Paris Secret

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“Living on the water took away the boundaries created by land and custom and introversion. Without fences and driveways, the water provided a constant thread of connection and dependency.”
― Lily Graham, The Cornish Escape

tags: houseboat, river, water

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“When you lose someone that you've known your whole life, pretty much, it's like you don't just mourn the person you lost at the end, you mourn everything that happened before. All those memories wash over you, like a tide, and it's so easy to get cast adrift”
― Lily Graham, The Last Restaurant in Paris

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“Death is not something you get over. It’s the rip that exposes life in a before and after chasm, and all you can do is try to exist as best you can in the after.”
― Lily Graham, The Postcard

tags: death, life-and-death

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“I am one of those lucky marvels whose husband has banned them from the kitchen, the last and now permanent ban was during an Everton Three (door slamming on hand) when he’d lamented, in a crazed manner to no one in particular after my failed tomato soup experiment, ‘She’d burn air, so she would,’ accompanied by wild pacing around the tomato splattered linoleum.”
― Lily Graham, The Postcard

tags: cooking

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“All we can do now is hope.’
I nodded, fighting back the tears. Tired of that word that asked so much, and gave so little in return.”
― Lily Graham, The Postcard

tags: hope

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“If love were enough, I’d tell St Peter to close his gates; I’d block out the stars, and cover the moon with a fist. I’d find a place where time stands still, where no world would exist, except one where we could stand together arm in arm. Except, my darling, here’s the secret you should know: where you are, so am I. No there exists or here. No place exists where I would not come when you need me, for you will always exist in a place where my love is without end.”
― Lily Graham, The Postcard

tags: hope, love

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