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My father was in the Air Force, so after thirteen schools I left early longing to travel and have adventures. I worked as a jillaroo in the Australian outback, a girl groom, a shearer’s cook, a secretary, a hospital cleaner, and later, back in England, as a house model for Hardy Amies in London.

In the seventies, and back in Australia again, love of horses led to riding out with Mick Jagger on the set of Ned Kelly and my first published article in The Sydney Morning Herald. Gave up paid employment, poverty and panic followed, but eventually got more work as a journalist. Secretly wrote short stories that were never published. I eventually started to write regularly for Australian magazines. In the seventies, I was sent to Vietnam and India t ...more

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Secret Passion

My secret passion lives at the bottom of my garden. He is a Welsh cob, called Bandit, and his sexy and dangerous name is somehow not matched by his eyes, that are liquid and dark and kind. When I feed him he leans his head briefly against my arm and closes his eyes. When I think of what kind of man he might be, I think of someone masculine but a bit soppy, maybe George Clooney.

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	East of the Sun 3.71 avg rating — 8,488 ratings — published 2007 — 60 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
	Monsoon Summer 3.96 avg rating — 1,884 ratings — published 2014 — 19 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
	Jasmine Nights 3.50 avg rating — 1,878 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Band of Angels 3.47 avg rating — 997 ratings — published 2004 — 27 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
	Of Love and Life: East of the Sun / The Sugar Queen / A Season of Leaves by Julia Gregson (Goodreads Author), Sarah Addison Allen (Goodreads Author), Catherine Law (Goodreads Author) 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2008	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 Water Horse) [By: Gregson, Julia] [Jan, 2009] by Julia Gregson (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 4.50 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
	Crossing Borders by Julia Gregson (Goodreads Author), Alex Pownall (Photographer) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 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
	Heartlands it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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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“She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water's deeper than you think and there's nothing there”
― Julia Gregson, East of the Sun

tags: drowning, east-of-the-sun, feeling, feet, julia-gregson, panic, scared, strange, swimming

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“when we look up, it widens our horizons. we see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries. No differences of caste or religion or race.”
― Julia Gregson, East of the Sun

tags: clouds, horizon, meditation, religion, sky, thinking

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“One of the the things she most liked about the city -apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the exhilarating walks by the river- was that so few people ever asked you personal questions.”
― Julia Gregson, East of the Sun

tags: alone, beauty, city, east-of-the-sun, julia-gregson, london, people, river, sun

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The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great - Eva Stachniak

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The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer

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The Winthrop Woman - Anya Seton

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Legacy - Susan Kay

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Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen - Mary Sharratt

9 votes, 6.6%

The Twentieth Wife - Indu Sundaresan

8 votes, 5.9%

Hild - Nicola Griffith

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Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald - Therese Anne Fowler

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Green Darkness - Anya Seton

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The Peerless Four - Victoria Patterson

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Band of Angels - Julia Gregson

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