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The German version of wikipedia has had an article about Lauren Brooke and sends a few dozen visitors to this site every month. A few days ago they changed the Lauren Brooke article page to redirect to another page -- "Gill Harvey". It looks like Lauren Brooke is a pen-name for another author according to what I've read on the German site. Here's a translation of the article into English. It's computer-translated using babelfish, so it isn't perfect, but it's not too hard to understand. According to Bloomsbury Publishing, Gill Harvey looks like this. I'm not sure whether the Germans are right about this or not, but I guess it is possible. |
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« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2007, 10:26:29 PM » |
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Hmmm...now THAT is interesting. I'm curious now.
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I love Chestnut Hill, Heartland, horses, animals, Aly & AJ, Bianca Ryan, Demi Lovato, Jordan Pruitt, and Nika Turkovic. Demi Lovato is AMAZING! Go Demi!
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« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2007, 12:55:18 PM » |
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This is seriously important. It talks about Rose Hill boarding school...is that just a bad translation?
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Jon Hartford
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« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2007, 02:46:08 PM » |
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On the untranslated page it has "Rose Hill- Internat für Mädchen und Pferde". I'm pretty sure they're talking about Chestnut Hill, which looks like it's named Rose Hill in the German books. Maybe they don't use the word "Chestnut" a lot in German and renamed it so that it's easier to understand. |
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« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2007, 03:08:04 PM » |
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ask Hedwig she'd know cause she's German.
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deferential. i say tomorrow i'll do this and tomorrow i'll do that. well tomorrow has come and gone and still i've done nothing.  |
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« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2007, 04:08:56 AM » |
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That is a great idea---shespeaks good English, and would probably have found some differences in their and our books, and maybe anyone German on the site would have heard of Gill Harvey. It is definately worth a try!
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« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2007, 04:53:43 PM » |
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Yup , I agree that sounds good !  Kate |
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Okay,i once got asked
"Yooh have horses , so are You ritch and posh"
Well if i was ritch i wouldnt be doing my own mucking out.
And just because i have horses dosent mean im posh , it means im privileged to have them.
So as the advert saying goes Yooh dont have to be posh to be Privilaaged
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« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2007, 03:34:22 PM » |
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under the alias Lauren brooke, Gill harvey publishes the books Heartland and Chestnut hill, for example. This is the english biography about Gill harvey: http://www.bloomsbury.com/childrens/microsite.asp?id=1081§ion=3I've you have some questions ask me please. i hope i could help you. Sarah |
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My English isn't the best because I'm from germany. If you have any questions when you don't understand me please ask me. I hope I can meet some new freinds soon.
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« Reply #8 on: April 12, 2007, 03:37:06 PM » |
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thanks for the article very helpful
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« Reply #9 on: April 15, 2007, 09:36:07 AM » |
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yes I found that too, but the information does not match and the picture is the same. It talks about Warwickshire, nothing about America and other places in England. It talks a little about Horses but more about Egypt. Do you here think it is Lauren Brooke
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« Reply #10 on: April 15, 2007, 09:49:55 AM » |
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I think I am going to cry seriously.I went to google.co.uk and typed in gill harvey+heartland and found this page It says that Gill wrote only 8 of the Heartland Books, and a couple of Lucy Daniels books-a series of books I once read about animals and a girl who was adopted to a vetinary clinic-Animal Ark. I loved those when I was 8, but then I moved onto Heartland. By maybe the same author. http://www.bloomsbury.com/childrens/details.asp?isbn=9780747579458&year=2007&beg=1&end=6I wish it was all different people! INcluding Lauren Brooke. PLEASE READ other pages say that she wrote horse care books
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« Reply #11 on: April 15, 2007, 11:02:59 AM » |
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Because of the lack of information that I've found on Lauren Brooke, I've thought about the possibility that Lauren Brooke might be a pen-name like Franklin W Dixon but haven't found any real evidence until now. The possibilities: -- Bloomberg and the German wikipedia made a mistake somehow, and the books are actually written by one person named Lauren Brooke. -- Gill Harvey uses Lauren Brooke as a pen-name and the Bloomberg page hasn't been updated since she wrote the 8th book. OR -- Lauren Brooke is ghost-written by several different authors. (Which would explain why there are books written in other languages first) |
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« Reply #12 on: April 15, 2007, 12:24:21 PM » |
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i am so confused  |
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« Reply #13 on: April 15, 2007, 03:27:53 PM » |
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i think Lauren Brooke is her Pen-name! This is the original translation from Wikipedia about Gill Harvey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Brooke |
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My English isn't the best because I'm from germany. If you have any questions when you don't understand me please ask me. I hope I can meet some new freinds soon.
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« Reply #14 on: April 18, 2007, 12:53:02 PM » |
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I don't really know what to think.
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