Caitlin Hicks

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My favorite book this year!

I have spent most of my adult life in another country, thousands of miles from my family of origin. And yet, daily I sift through the myriad of details of the time we shared while I was being formed into a person.

da14db89-81ab-4957-9b5b-f9766dfd0698It only takes an instant to blink in the light of another day and understand how much time has passed since then. When I last counted the nieces and nephews born in the generation that follows mine, there were 42. Most of these offspring are grown; I have missed their births, their first communions, their passage into adulthood, their entire lives because I fell in love with a Canadian.

Yet through the years I have nurtured this fantasy. That I just want to be with them. That we miss each other’s company. That we understand how connected we are, and that we know how to love each other.

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“I just finished (A Theory of) Expanded Love, and thought it was just WONDERFUL!!! My favorite book so far this year, and probably will be for the whole year. I know it will do well. Congratulations!”

-Deborah Hining, Writer, A Sinner in Paradise
*IndieFab Book of the Year Bronze Award Winner  * Benjamin Franklin Awards Silver Medal Winner

 

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for who she is.

     “A Theory of Expanded Love is enjoyable from beginning to end and all the while I love Annie for who she is. The ease in which the author is able to include so many characters without confusing the reader is a testament of her writing ability. The story flows seamlessly. It is in every way a true to life experience worth reading. . . It leaves me wanting to know the next chapter in Annie’s life. . . I await the author’s follow up book.
– Yvette Fleming (Complete review on Goodreads)

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“Brilliant”.

“Through Facebook, I came upon a request to review a book and am proud to say that Caitlin Hicks http://www.caitlinhicks.com/wordpress/the-theory-of-expanded-love/ is a wonderful author.

“The novel, “A Theory of Expanded Love”, is brilliant. Caitlin Hicks’ writing clearly paints pictures to the imagination. The periodic timeline of events and Catholic culture are great assets, as is the challenge Annie faces, of going against her parents, for what she truly believes to be the right thing to do. Loved every minute of the book and was sad to see it end.

“This novel will make a great movie.” Angie Gursche

 

Acclaimed Debut Novel

Republished by Sunbury Press this summer

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