Ann Hayton is releasing her first book later this year
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A Suffolk author is preparing to release her debut novel ten years after she first put pen to paper.
Ann Hayton, from Wickham Market, will publish her first young adult novel this year.
The Other Side of the Whale Road will be released in September by Lightning Books under Mrs Hayton s pen name, K.A. Hayton.
The story follows a 16-year-old boy named Joss, who is sent to live in a Suffolk village and ends up travelling back in time to the Anglo Saxon period to meet King Edmund.
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