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Catherine Hokin

Catherine Hokin

5th August 2015 by Catherine Hokin

Catherine Hokin is a Glasgow-based author, writing both long and short fiction. Her novel, The Fortunate Ones, was published by Bookouture on 20th January 2020. This is a story of love and survival set during and in the aftermath of the Second World War in Berlin and Buenos Aires. Felix and Hannah meet unexpectedly in a Berlin dance hall. They are instantly smitten and immediately separated. Felix goes searching for the beautiful girl in blue but Hannah is not who she seems and, when they encounter each other again, it is in the most terrible of circumstances.

Her second Berlin novel – What Only We Know – was published on 27 May 2020 and traces the devastating impact of a family secret, with a timeline split between the 1930s/ 1940s and the 1970s to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Two further Berlin novels will be published by Bookouture in 2021.

Catherine also writes short stories  a number of which have been published which have been published in magazines including Writers’ Forum, iScot & Myslexia and placed in competitions, including first place in the 2019 Flash 500 Competition Short Story Competition. 

She is represented by Tina Betts of the Andrew Mann Literary Agency

Published works:

The Fortunate Ones

The Fortunate Ones

What Only We Know

What Only We Know

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  • 20th Century

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  • Ben Fergusson
  • Jane Thynne
  • Elizabeth Buchan

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  • Scotland

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