129:, ranked at number 5 in the Sunday Times Bestseller charts in the first full week of publication and remained in the top 20 for five weeks. It also hit the number one spots on Amazon.co.uk Kindle, Kobo, Google Books, iBooks and Sainsbury ebooks and took the number 2 spot below
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Taylor's novels have been published in the UK and US and translated into over twenty-five languages including
Chinese, Russian, Hungarian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Taiwanese, French, Italian, Polish, Indonesian, Croatian, Norwegian, and Czech.
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Taylor first began writing short stories in 2005. In 2006, she won two short story competitions, the Helen Mullin Awards and the Bank Street
Writers competition, and was also runner-up in the
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was shortlisted for two Dead Good Books Reader Awards in 2015: Most
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Walters HM (2015) A writer with two heads. Writer's Forum #162 p 7
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