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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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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 of the writers for award-winning One Year One Night by SL Roman has an Italian background.
Laura Meloni Bywaters was born in Rome. She grew up there when the rest of the world was rediscovering this iconic metropolis with its style, red vespas and coffee bars. Laura went on to attend Rome University where she got a First Class degree. She worked as a teacher and researcher and during a research…
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Victory roll hairdo inspired the artist of the cover of award-winning One Year One Night by SL Roman.
The award-winning novel ‘One Year One Night’ by SL Roman features an eye-catching cover. It was designed by artist David Malcolm who found a Getty image of Annie, the heroine of the young adult novel. The illustration has a sixties feel in the style of pop art luminary Roy Lichtenstein which fits as the story…
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‘Marvellous review’ from U.S. website.
A British award-winning writing pair have got another great review for One Year One Night by SL Roman. The American Reedsy.com runs the Discovery books website with the tagline ‘recommendations from real people not robots’. The people behind this young adult novel are Laura Meloni Bywaters and Sarah Onions who met at the school gate…
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North American reviewers want to know more about British writing pair.
The authors of One Year One Night are getting questions about their writing ahead of publication. Sarah Onions and Laura Meloni Bywaters write under the pen name SL Roman. The young adult fiction novel will be published in N. America in the early summer. Reviewers wanted to know about the inspiration for their first work…
One Year One Night - SL Roman. 