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Sarah Larkham is a singer-songwriter who lives on a houseboat in a marina in central Bristol. She also co-facilitates music workshops for people with mental illness. During the last year, she’s diversified and has been teaching singing online, and is grateful to have also had the time to devote to her other great passion in life – writing. Her YA novel is called The Sensitives, and her dream is to write full time. Her husband is also a musician, and has just finished writing the book he has been working on for the past year. Sarah says they have quite literally been in the same boat.

Willow was trying to move the feather with her mind.1

So far, it hadn’t gone She’d spent the best part of the morning staring at it and now, not only did she have a headache, but the feather hadn’t budged. The most exciting thing to happen over the last couple of hours was when the window had blown open and the feather moved, and it had taken her a couple of seconds to realise that it was down to the wind and not the power of her mind. Telekinesis was not coming naturally to her. She narrowed her eyes and concentrated, hard.

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