The Hazel Riley Project
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"I am a writer who draws her inspiration from many sources including nature, dance, mythology, popular culture, art and old movies. I have written two novels for teenagers Thanis and The Crying, both published by Oxford University Press".
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"I'm a practising pagan and have studied with different shamans and other teachers for over ten years. I am researching Moon Goddesses and Gods, writing about ritual and retelling stories and fables from many cultures". Hazel Riley
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"It is Jessica’s big chance, the chance to make her name as an artist. All she has to do is make a silver spiral for the mysterious Thanis. But why is the spiral so important? Does Thanis possess some strange power?"
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"I can’t unearth where my passion for Egypt began. As a small child I’d a prayer book with an attractive picture of pharaoh’s daughter rescuing Moses on the cover. I had an embossed leather bag and a few vintage postcards that someone had brought back during the war. I read Herodotus at school.
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“I was 2½. A nurse brought the baby wrapped in a long shawl and put him in my arms. I was allowed to hold him for a few seconds. She told me he was my baby. I believed her. I was angry when she took him off me, and gave him back to my mother”.
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