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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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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…
One Year One Night - SL Roman. 