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Lucinda Berry

Lucinda Berry is a USA TODAY bestselling novelist whose psychological thrillers draw on her background as a former psychologist and childhood-trauma researcher. Known for The Perfect Child, Saving Noah, and When She Returned, she has reached millions of readers worldwide; her books have also been translated into multiple languages and optioned for film. ((https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Lucinda-Berry/204779618?utm_source=openai))

Biografia e Percorso dell'Autore

Lucinda Berry’s path to authorship joined an early habit of storytelling with a professional life in psychology. In interviews, she has said she was writing from childhood, dictating stories before she could write on her own and completing a 100-page book in fourth grade. Her formal training and long career centered on psychology and trauma, and she has described graduate-school research on how writing can help people heal after traumatic experiences. Berry later worked as a clinical psychologist and researcher focused on childhood trauma, including time in inpatient psychiatric settings and treatment centers. The decisive turn came when, after years of writing privately, she began publishing fiction in her thirties and effectively merged her clinical and creative lives. ((https://lucindaberry.com/bio/?utm_source=openai))

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The answer to that is a disturbing yes
-From Trauma Psychologist to Thriller Writer
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The final twist and that’s all I can say about that
-Interview With Lucinda Berry, Author Of 'This Is A Safe Space'
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl
-Author Interview - Lucinda Berry
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In some ways, writing was the way that I coped
-Ask the Author: Lucinda Berry
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Like they just got off of a rollercoaster
-Lucinda Berry | Author Interview
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The world. The truth is better than any fiction
-Quickfire author Q&A: Lucinda Berry

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"Lucinda Berry is just so so brilliant"

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"Lucinda Berry's The Secrets of Us is an utterly gripping, raw, and heartbreaking story"

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"The Perfect Child, by Lucinda Berry, is the sort of novel I can't put down"

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