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Ruth Hogan

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I was born in the house where my parents still live in Bedford: my sister was so pleased to have a sibling that she threw a thrupenny bit at me. As a child I read everything I could lay my hands on: The Moomintrolls, A Hundred Million Francs, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, the back of cereal packets and gravestones. I was mad about dogs and horses, but didn't like daddy-long-legs or sugar in my tea.

I studied English and Drama at Goldsmiths College which was brilliant, but then I came home and got a 'proper' job. I worked for ten years in a senior local government position before a car accident left me unable to work full-time and convinced me to start writing seriously. It was going well, but then in 2012 I got cancer, which was bloody inconvenient but precipitated an exciting hair journey from bald to a peroxide blonde Annie Lennox crop. When chemo kept me up all night I passed the time writing and the eventual result was The Keeper of Lost Things.

I live in a chaotic Victorian house with an assortment of rescue dogs and my long-suffering partner I am a magpie, always collecting treasures, and a huge John Betjeman fan. My favourite word is 'antimacassar' and I still like reading gravestones.

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Ruth Hogan

Ruth Hogan

Books from Ruth Hogan

The Keeper of Lost Things

Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel

The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes

The Moon, the Stars, and Madame Burova

Ruth Hogan Collection 3 Books Set (The Keeper of Lost Things, Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel, The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes)

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The Keeper of Lost Things

The Phoenix Ballroom

Madame Burova: the new novel from the author of The Keeper of Lost Things