# Soraya Lane - Following the Heart

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Podcast: [The Marlborough Book Festival](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-marlborough-book-festival-6717437)
Published: 2024-09-15T07:56:41+00:00
Episode link: https://marlboroughbookfestival.podbean.com/e/soraya-lane-following-the%c2%a0heart/
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Duration seconds: 3699

## Resource

Soraya Lane has followed her heart creating historical fiction and romance novels. Her series, The Lost Daughters, has been an international success, and her WWII novels are enormously popular with lovers of the historical genre. At the 2023 Marlborough Book Festival she explains to Courtney Clark Michaels about her writing life and how she weaves empowerment of women in the #MeToo era into her fiction.

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