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Anstey Harris

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Contemporary, Fiction

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Anstey Harris is based by the seaside in south-east England where she lives with her violinmaker husband and two dogs. She teaches creative writing in the community, local schools, and occasionally as an associate lecturer for Christchurch University in Canterbury. If you'd like to have a go at some writing exercises with Anstey, head over to Instagram and look at her IGTV channel, where she also interviews authors about their journeys and tips for writing.

Anstey writes about the things that make people tick, the things that bind us and the things that can rip us apart. In 2015, she won the H G Wells Short Story Prize for her story, Ruby and The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton (a Richard and Judy pick for July 2019) won the RNA Sapere ...more

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Striders, a short story

I wrote this short story a couple of years ago about a dream my husband had. There is a lot of sadness around at the moment, but there’s a lot of love too: the world is still a beautiful place. Feel free to share this with anyone you feel might find comfort in it.

Striders by Anstey Spraggan

You used to think you could smell danger on the air; hot summer nights with a whisper of violence, storms br

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Average rating: 3.93 · 31,849 ratings · 2,510 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	The House of Lost Secrets 4.01 avg rating — 15,534 ratings — published 2024 — 7 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
	Goodbye, Paris 3.75 avg rating — 10,720 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	The Museum of Forgotten Memories 3.85 avg rating — 3,375 ratings — published 2020 — 15 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
	When I First Held You 4.33 avg rating — 2,215 ratings — published 2023 — 7 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
	Where We Belong by Anstey Harris (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 4.67 avg rating — 3 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
	Nah ist die Erinnerung by Anstey Harris (Goodreads Author), Cornelia Waibel (Narrator), Marion Plath - Übersetzer 1.50 avg rating — 2 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
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“And I understood that, how you can live in a house your whole life but never feel like you belong. Never feel like these are your people, like you understand them.”
― Anstey Harris, The House of Lost Secrets

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“We’re very different people, he and I, neither of us wrong, neither of us bothering anyone else with our lifestyle choices, but very different people.”
― Anstey Harris, The House of Lost Secrets

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“And it gives me comfort that that’s how she spent her last day – believing that her life had opened up in front of her again, that it was all for her and she could do anything.”
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Standard Deviation

by Katherine Heiny

17 votes, 30.9%

Bridge of Clay

by Markus Zusak

11 votes, 20.0%

A Ladder to the Sky

by John Boyne

8 votes, 14.5%

The Whiskey Rebels

by David Liss

7 votes, 12.7%

The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

by Dashka Slater

5 votes, 9.1%

The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton

by Anstey Harris

4 votes, 7.3%

The Good Lord Bird

by James McBride

3 votes, 5.5%

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