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One Year One Night by SL Roman gets 13 k viewers in first reading on Tiktok.
American actor Alex Ryan Brown read excerpts from the historical romance written by Laura and Sarah under the pen-name SL Roman. Tiktok users heard Alex introduce the characters of Annie, unlucky boy Ben, jobsworth Mr Cribbles and Harriet Mandeville. The readings concentrated on the point in the story where the evacuees including Ben arrive at…
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One Year One Night by SL Roman is spreading its wings again.
A new paperback edition has been released in America. It`s called a softcover in the U.S. and is being sold through Egremont Books, an imprint of Red Chair Press, which is based near Boston. RCP first published OYON in 2024 in hardback with illustrations. This new edition is selling for $8.99. In other news, we`ve…
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One Year One Night’s American publisher has won Publisher of the month from the Independent Book Review.
Red Chair Press, which is based outside of Boston in New England, is praised for producing kids’ favourite series. It started in 2009 and has published 300 books. These include One Year One Night by SL Roman which is the penname for Sarah Onions and Laura Meloni Bywaters. Sarah and Laura’s first Young Adult Novel is described…
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Writers backed by the Queen appear in The Good Life newspaper in Surbiton, SW London.
Sarah Onions and Laura Meloni Bywaters have been featured in the community newspaper which reaches 20,000 readers. The story was accompanied by a photo of Sarah and Laura which appears on their website slroman.com The paper picked up on Sarah’s tour to the U.S. to promote One Year One Night which was written by the…
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SL Roman authors to speak at top girls’ school.
Sarah Onions and Laura Meloni Bywaters will talk about theirnovel to nearly 200 girls at a highly rated school in March.Sarah and Laura will be presenting to Key Stage 3 pupils whoare between 11 and 14.The writers will address their young audience about One YearOne Night, their first Young Adult novel.It’s a story of love,…
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Our royally-supported novel now gets an airing on Spotify.
Fans of listening to stories can now hear our first Young Adult Novel on the digital audio podcast. One Year One Night by SL Roman was published in North America last year as an audio book, as well as in hardback form and a version for dyslexic readers. It’s the story of an unlucky boy…
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Wartime street parties to come back next month
May 2025 will see the 80th anniversary of WW2 and it will be marked by street parties in Britain which will evoke life as described in One Year One Night by SL Roman. The Young Adult novel, published in the US and elsewhere last year, is set against the background of teenager Annie who has…
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1940 Londoners changed their look
World War 2 brought a change in the way Londoners presented themselves. Women wore a Victory Roll hairdo which mimicked the turn of the British bomber’s wings when they dropped their deadly load. And turbans became a thing for working on shift in the weapons factories so hair didn’t get caught up in the production…
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Living underground in 1940 – the background to One Year One Night by SL Roman.
The British had to get used to living below the surface in the first year of war. Many householders bought Anderson shelters which could be built in the garden and meant a whole family could hide down below when the German bombers arrived overhead. The shelters were damp and smelly and often people refused to…
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How hardship hit the characters in the award-winning adult fiction One Year One Night by SL Roman.
The wartime years in the first novel by SL Roman saw the British face shortages and rationing of food. No food could be bought without the card unless it was ‘under the counter’. Food is a preoccupation for our heroine Annie from the start and she oftens refers to a tiny piece of meat at…
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