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Nicholas Mosley

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

Nicholas Mosley

Romantic

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Nicholas Mosley stopped writing novels temporarily because he was unhappy with the theme of romantic tragedy that seemed unavoidable in his work. He felt stuck because he couldn't find an alternative approach to avoid that sense of inevitable sadness in romance.

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