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The Surrey source of the idea for award-winning novel One Year One Night by SL Roman.
One half of SL Roman – Sarah Onions heard a story of an unlucky boy who was killed in WW2 when she was teaching at Strode’s College in Egham in southern England. All teachers are aware that the students always seem to know what’s happening before anyone else and her classes knew the story of…
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Millside – a village in southern England created out of nowhere by the writers of One Year One Night.
Once the writers of One Year One Night by SL Roman decided to turn the tale of the original unlucky boy into a novel, there were new decisions to make. Sarah Onions and Laura Meloni Bywaters, writing under the pen name of SL Roman had to establish a village in their minds where the lively…
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The strange puzzle at the heart of the award-winning young adult fiction One Year One Night by SL Roman.
There’s an unsolved puzzle in the original story which underpinned the first novel by authors SL Roman. The original boy Ken Carter was killed by a German bomb in November 1940 in the southern English town of Egham in Surrey. He lay in an unmarked grave for more than 60 years in Englefield Green cemetery.…
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A sense of history in award-winning young adult novel One Year One Night by SL Roman.
The writers behind SL Roman loved researching the background of their first novel from the word go. It helped that Laura Meloni Bywaters has a 1st class degree from Rome University. She’d also worked as an examiner so has a sure sense of detail. Sarah Onions, the other half of the creative pair, worked as…
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Our young adult novel One Year One Night by SL Roman is now on sale in North America and elsewhere.
It’s a story based on a teenager’s diary set in WW2. Our heroine Annie has to care for an evacuated boy in southern England. SL Roman is the pen name for London writers Sarah Onions and Laura Meloni Bywaters. It’s their first collaboration together and now they are working on a sequel. One Year One…
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One Year One Night described as a heart-wrenching tale.
The award-winning young adult novel is getting top reviews online. Recent acclaim for the first publication by SL Roman praised the heart-wrenching tale. Reviewer Nancy Bansal described on OnlineBookClub.Org how the story of an evacuated boy ‘gave my heart a roller coaster ride of emotions’. She described the fiction as ‘charming, funny, interesting,exciting and emotional.…
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The American connection for European authors SL Roman.
The other writer in the awarding winning creators of One Year One Night by SL Roman has an American connection. Sarah Onions lived in Manhattan as a child. And that experience influenced her as she also went to school in the city and read books for American kids. Her favourite writer was Laura Ingalls Wilder…
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The international illustrator behind the award-winning One Year One Night by SL Roman.
The artist for the North American edition came up through Marvel Comics in the UK. Kev Hopgood joined Zoids magazine straight out of art school. His favourite character to draw is War Machine who he co-created while working on Iron Man. He’s currently drawing a war story for Commando Comics which has led him to…
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One Year One Night on screen in North America.
A short film has been made to promote One Year One Night by SL Roman in North America. It shows some of the main characters in the award-winning young adult novel set in WW2. The story is the creation of British writers Sarah Onions and Laura Meloni Bywaters. The film can be seen here: It…
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Top notch characters by British writing pair.
One of America’s leading review panels has described One Year One Night by SL Roman as having ‘top-notch characterisation’. The Literary Titan has more than sixty thousand followers and has praised the first work by the British writing pair, ‘Despite the book’s discussion of serious themes, it is an easy and entertaining read with a…
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