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Annette Spratte

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Annette Spratte has lived several lives: as a child in Germany, as an au-pair in Pennsylvania, as a legal secretary and as a horse trainer back again in Germany. Now she is a freelance author and translator, wife, mother of two, horseowner and a devoted gardener. She lives in a village close to Altenkirchen in the beautiful Westerwald region in Germany. She hates shopping.

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Annette Spratte Excellent question. Yes and no. What Josie has gone through is in no way autobiographical. The trauma she suffered (if you want to learn more about th…moreExcellent question. Yes and no. What Josie has gone through is in no way autobiographical. The trauma she suffered (if you want to learn more about that, you'll have to read the next book) is purely fictional. But her emotional state as described in Survivor is something familiar to me, without the nightmares. My home was not a happy one, my relationship to my father very distant while my mother was emotionally abusive.
Parts of me and my experience are scattered all over my characters. So I cannot say Josie represents me or - in the follow-up - Jim or Stacey or Lisa represents me. They all do and yet they are all their own personalities, acting in ways I never would.
Glad it touched you!(less)
Annette Spratte I am currently working on a historical romance with a touch of mystery. I really didn't want to write that, but it wouldn't leave me alone! …moreI am currently working on a historical romance with a touch of mystery. I really didn't want to write that, but it wouldn't leave me alone! (less)
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The Silent Maid is on sale!

To celebrate my first facebook live event, The Silent Maid is reduced to half price from June 11 to 14th!
You may enter the giveaway at Meet the Authors to win one of several fabulous books and ebooks.

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A Whisper Of Magic by Helen Pryke
"Devour this gorgeous witchy read in one sitting!

Yet again, Helen has created a stunning world, with a massive sprinkle of magic, found family, loss and grief, self-discovery, secrets, and things that seem impossible. However, the author's own magic " Read more of this review »
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A lot can be said for this imaginative story that easily transitions from realism to fantasy and back. It's a story to be read several times to appreciate all the little details that escape you as you race through the pages for the first time. Everyt ...more
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very neurotic characters and not my kind of humour. Just interesting enough to not break off. At least the ending was satisfactory.
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It's Always Sunny in California by Nellie K. Neves
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I must start with an admission: I fell in love with Rhett. He doesn't feel like a fictional character to me, but like someone I desperately want to meet. I wouldn't want to switch places with Sunny because her past is nothing anyone would wish for, b ...more
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Persuade Me by Nellie K. Neves
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I know the author is a master storyteller and tension is her third name. But this story gave me nightmares. I loved it! The nightmares were due to the fact that I tried to put the book away at eleven at night, went to bed, tried to sleep, but couldn' ...more
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A Swedish immigrant and a halfbreed team up in the wilderness? Sounds like a thrilling story and it was. I fell in love with the characters on the first pages. Both were well defined and relateable, carrying their individual emotional loads with them ...more
The Hunger Countess by Annette Spratte
"I loved this book. The author is a gifted writer and historian, and I was drawn into Ernestine’s story from the very first page. The author must’ve done some serious research for this book as I’m certain that 17th century documents are hard to come b" Read more of this review »
The Potbaker's Niece by Annette Spratte
"An interesting and gritty story of a girl in the middle of a war who poses as a boy for safety and ends up apprenticing for her uncle, a local potter. She learns things only boys learn and is GREAT at it! (No spoilers!) I really enjoyed learning the " Read more of this review »
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“I acknowledged that God is the sovereign Lord and I gave myself up completely. I guess it’s a little bit like committing suicide, only with a higher purpose.”
Annette Spratte, The Way of Life

“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion on them.

On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.”
Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist,'" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.”
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

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