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Christina McDonald

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Christina McDonald is the USA Today and Amazon charts bestselling author of These Still Black Waters, Do No Harm, Behind Every Lie and The Night Olivia Fell, which has been optioned for television by a major Hollywood studio. Originally from Seattle, Washington, she now lives in London, England, with her husband, two sons, and their dog, Tango.

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Christina McDonald Hi Belinda, thank you so much! I'm so excited for All That Is Broken to be released next year! :) I'm just finishing up edits in the next few weeks, s…moreHi Belinda, thank you so much! I'm so excited for All That Is Broken to be released next year! :) I'm just finishing up edits in the next few weeks, so hopefully in a few months we'll have a cover to put on Goodreads. I'll definitely announce it on my Facebook page, if you're following me there - @christinamcdonaldauthor. Thank you!(less)
Christina McDonald The idea for Night Olivia Fell came when I read a story about a teenage girl in California who was declared brain dead after a routine tonsillectomy w…moreThe idea for Night Olivia Fell came when I read a story about a teenage girl in California who was declared brain dead after a routine tonsillectomy went wrong. There was a lot of talk at the time about the legal and moral implications. I’m not a lawyer, so I can’t weigh in on this, but I am a mother, and my first thought when I read this story was for the girl’s mother and the heartbreak she must’ve been feeling.

Losing your child is every parent’s worst nightmare, and I imagined myself in her circumstances. Being the person I am, I started asking myself what if? What if the teenage girl had been pregnant? Would that be a comfort or a curse to her mother? What if the mother had suffered her own tragedies? What if she was a single parent? What if she thought something more sinister had happened? What if she’d been murdered, but nobody would listen to her?

I had a very specific scene flash through my mind and I wrote a rough draft of it right then. The entire book then developed around that.(less)
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An absolutely wild ride that reached into one of my darkest nightmares and brought it to life. The Haters focuses on the dangers of how we handle social media, as one reviewer infiltrates an author’s life, slowly creeping deeper and deeper under her skin.

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"𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒊𝒅𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕......

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“He had the air of someone who imagines he can negotiate with gravity.”
Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell

“But there are no redos in life. You can’t go back and make things better. All you can do is live with it and move forward.”
Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell

“You don’t have to be right one hundred percent of the time to show you love someone.”
Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell

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“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
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