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AWARDS
The 2025 Nautilus Book Awards Gold Winner
“Our core mission is to celebrate and honor books that support conscious living and green values, wellness, social change, social justice, and spiritual growth.”
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The 2025 Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBAs) – FINALIST for Humor and Satire
“The Humor and Satire Book Awards recognize outstanding new talent and emerging works in the genre of Satire, Humor and Allegory Fiction.”
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The 2025 Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBAs) – shortlisted for Humor and Satire
“Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring satire, humor, political ideology, parody, fantasy, and allegory or fable.”
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The 2025 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Inspirational fiction
“The largest international awards program for indie authors and independent publishers.”
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The 2025 Eric Hoffer da Vinci Eye Book Award
“The da Vinci Eye is awarded to titles with superior cover art.”
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Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal for Inspirational Fiction
“Its simple and crisp plot can only be described as sublime.”
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The 2025 IAN Book of the Year Awards – Inspirational Fiction Finalist
The Independent Author Network
INTERVIEWS & REVIEWS
The Booklife Prize by Publishers Weekly – Critic’s Report
“The originality of Time and the Tree lies in its ability to captivate and charm on its surface as one is taken in by its plush prose and multi-faceted characters; however, there is a deeper meaning here as it invites the reader to also explore (and open) their own hearts, finding themselves represented by every character, both the magical and the mundane alike.”
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The Miami Wire – Exploring Time, Transformation and the Wild Unknown: Róisín Sorahan on Her Visionary Novel, Time and the Tree
“Time and the Tree does not claim to provide quick resolutions, but instead invites us to step out of our well-worn paths and into something wilder, more intuitive and more awake.”
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The Book Revue – 5 starred review
“Time and the Tree is a philosophical and luminous work that leaves a lasting impression on the reader, akin to a whispered truth.”
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IMAGE Magazine – Interview with Patricia Scanlan, best-selling author, discussing her favourite books
“Time and the Tree is an exquisitely written, thought-provoking fable about the nature of time and the quest for happiness.”
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Seven Days, VT – Review
“With whispers of Madeleine L’Engle, Sorahan crafts a modern parable as philosophical as it is fantastical.”
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Readers’ Favorite – 5 starred review
“…brimming with symbolism and existential undertones that will move you to read it over and over again.”
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The Vermont Standard – Profile feature with author
“The mountains in Vermont are almost like the State’s spine, and I think Vermont has a backbone. It knows what it stands for, and what it will stand up for. It reminds me a little bit of Ireland.”
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Imbolc Books — Interview with Róisín
“I need words to put flesh on a feeling, or a thought, to fully examine it and understand it. It’s the only way I can bring it into being and make sense of it.”
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Bookpleasures – Interview with Róisín
“Magic is another word for possibility.”
Teddy Rose — Interview with Róisín
“We are responsible for the paths we travel and the choices we make. Our capacity for fear and self-destruction is enormous. So too is our ability to change, to fail, to fail better, to love, to immerse ourselves in the moment. Our capacity for happiness is also boundless.”
Joystory — Interview with Róisín
“I don’t believe in the lost cause. Any more than I believe in our power to change another. We can help. We can support. And we can guide. But the impetus for change lies within the individual.”
Celtic Lady’s Review
“A book unlike anything I’ve ever read before. This book is somehow both familiar and entirely new.”
Goodreads – Review
“Pure magic in book form.”
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Toots Book Reviews
“An absolute powerhouse of a story.”
Teddy Rose Book Review
“Time and the Tree is destined to be a classic.”
LoveReading UK – Review
“An uplifting and tranquil allegory filled with positivity and hope.”
Storey Book Reviews
“The author’s mastery of idiomatic creativity while also making her otherwise abstract characters look real is just out of this world.”
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ARTICLES & ESSAYS
Happiness in the Time of Covid
“Happiness is a choice that we make. It’s the decision to plough the scarred earth, rather than let the wounds fester.”
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