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I write both non-fiction and fiction under my own name – Sanjida O’Connell.

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‘@WritersMosaic is a celebration of modern, magical, British writing.’

I’m delighted to be a part of this wonderful new platform designed to celebrate the diversity of British literature. For me, it’s all about belonging, validation and recognition - that we share a common as well as a disparate culture and background. We’re united in our eclecticism and the originality of our voices.

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Cultivating gratitude in these tough times can help keep us happy - and it’s so true. I’m blessed to have books and flowers, which have gladdened my heart over these past months when we haven’t been able to meet up with our friends and family. Here’s to having a glass of wine in the sunshine with our nearest and dearest now we can meet outside!

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Somebody is peckish... ten lambs waiting for me to bring them breakfast!

Sadly, their holiday with us is nearly over. They’ll be heading back to their owners next week, having done the job of grazing @wild.pinebeck field and wood, ready for new wild flowers to grow! 🤞🏽🌸🌼

I’ll be really sad to see them go. They’re such characters! Who knew #sheep could be so funny?!

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To celebrate being featured in @thetravellingreaderbookboxes I’m giving away a copy of my psychological thriller, ‘The Stolen Child.’

Set in Yorkshire, it’s about a family who have adopted a little girl. When she turns seven, she receives a letter from her father saying she was stolen from him, and now he’s coming to get her back…

If you’d like the chance of winning this copy -

📚 FOLLOW me on Instagram
📚 LIKE this post
📚 TAG one person.

That’s it! I’ll choose a winner at random in one week. Good luck! ☘️

PS Open to anyone anywhere!

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One Year Later, My Mother’s Secret, The Stolen Child and Bone by Bone are published by @atlanticbooks and @audible_uk
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I’m so delighted to be picked for this month’s @thetravellingreaderbookboxes - which is from West Yorkshire. My second psychological thriller, ‘The Stolen Child’ is set in Ilkley and on Ilkley Moor. I wrote a letter to readers about the location and my inspiration (think Yeats, rowan trees and faeries, as well as child abduction), which I’ve posted on my blog (link in the bio : www.sanjida.co.uk)

I loved all the gifts, especially the fudge (!) and the attention to detail - gorgeous bookmark with a quote from Yeats on the back and postcard of the Cow and Calf rock on Ilkley Moor. 🙏🏽

Let me know if you received a book box from @thetravellingreaderbookboxes - and what you thought of the parkin…and ‘The Stolen Child’!

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My #writingtip for @WritersMosaic, a new platform to champion and celebrate the UK’s diverse literary landscape. Featuring writing and podcasts with writers, interviewed by writers. Coming soon!

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Happy Easter Monday! I love this quote from Roald Dahl’s ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ (and would have liked a marbled chocolate rabbit from @cocoalocochoc if they hadn’t all sold out!)

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Happy Easter! We’ve decided to give each other books for Easter (and maybe a little bit of chocolate!). Thank you to @maxminervasbooks for keeping us supplied with books during lockdown! I’ve gone for ‘Girl of Ink and Stars’ by @kiran_mh who is going to be featured on @writersmosaic soon (for my daughter). And Meadowland by John Lewis Stempel for my husband. I wonder what book the Easter Bunny will bring me?
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How about you? Chocolate or books??? 📚🍫

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Feed me! The lambs’ antics are distracting me from my writing! Our ten visitors bombed around the field and Lilac Wood. One immediately climbed on a pile of horse chestnut logs, then felt a bit wobbly and had to be helped down! 🤣 They quickly recovered their balance, and have been climbing, goat-like, over the ruined miners’ cottages. Apparently brambles are like chocolate to them and they’ve been getting tangled up in the briars, velcro-ing themselves to each other, and me, when I try and free them! Hmmm, sheep sleeping beauties!?

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Just a few books to read in the holidays (not to mention the pile I’ve downloaded onto my kindle)! 😅 I’m in the research phase of my next thriller and need to get through at least some of these before I can begin writing.

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I absolutely loved Bridget Collins’ first adult novel, ‘The Binding’. Her second, ‘The Betrayals’ is inspired by one of my favourite books, ‘The Glass-Bead Game’ by Herman Hesse. In a castle on the top of a mountain, where the air is thin, scholars play the ‘grand jeu’, a game of maths and music that illuminates beauty and the divine. A failed politician and ex-grand-jeu gold medalist, and the first female head Magister Ludi meet for the first time, yet feel an odd connection to one another. Both have built their lives on secrets and betrayals, which will come to a head at the Midsummer Games.

It’s bookish, beautifully-written, immersive and sensuous, if not quite as startlingly original as ‘The Binding’. Highly recommended.

What are you reading at the moment?

@harpercollinsuk

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One of my favourite books when I was a young adult was ‘The Glass-Bead Game’ by Herman Hesse - it’s about a game played by scholars that fuses all of human knowledge, maths, music, science, into a kind of beautiful, divine philosophy.

Anyone else read it?

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