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Carol Atherton

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Carol Atherton is the author of Reading Lessons: An English Teacher’s Love Letter to the Books that Shape Us, which was shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2025. She is an English teacher, tutor and writer. Originally from Merseyside, she studied English at Oxford and now lives in Lincolnshire.

Books by Carol Atherton

Reading Lessons

An English teacher's love letter to reading and teaching, taking us through the books we read at school, and considering what we can take from them now.

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So Many Ways to Belong

A powerful and illuminating exploration of adoption, written by an adoptive mother, which tells both a deeply personal story and the larger story of adoption itself: challenging stereotypes, exploding myths, and examining what it truly means to build a family.

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