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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/novel-career-move-by-exholby-star.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="When God Was A Rabbit by Sarah Winman has been chosen for this year's Waterstones 11" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-novel-career-move-by-exholby-star.jpg" alt="When God Was A Rabbit by Sarah Winman has been chosen for this year's Waterstones 11"/></a></p>
<p>A former Holby City star is among 11 first-time novelists tipped for success this year.</p>
<p>Sarah Winman, who played NHS boss Davina MacKenzie in the long-running medical drama, said she was &#8220;blessed&#8221; to be chosen from a longlist of 100 writers for her book When God Was A Rabbit.</p>
<p>The 46-year-old Londoner joins novelists from as far afield as Sri Lanka, Latvia and Canada in the first ever Waterstone&#8217;s 11 list.</p>
<p>She said: &#8220;I&#8217;ve always been writing but I&#8217;ve been an actress for 23 years and it is in the last five years I started writing novels.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is a book about a relationship between a brother and a sister. The book is in two parts, childhood and the secrets they forge, and adulthood and consequences of those secrets. Ultimately it is a family saga about what keeps families together and about being able to start again.&#8221;</p>
<p>Winman, who has also appeared in Silent Witness, Foyle&#8217;s War, and The Forsythe Saga, said she had no plans to give up acting.</p>
<p>She said: &#8220;The writing came out of that. I was surrounded by scripts and I was surrounded by words. I still have an acting agent and think writing and acting can live side by side quite happily.&#8221;</p>
<p>Other names on the list include Limerick-born Kevin Barry, advertising executive Shehan Karunatilaka and Stephen Kelman.</p>
<p>The Luton-born author hit the headlines last year when his novel was at the centre of a 12-way bidding war by publishers.</p>
<p>Waterstone&#8217;s managing director Dominic Myers said: &#8220;I am in the book business because I love finding great new writing, and I know I am not alone in that passion. Our first Waterstone&#8217;s 11 is quite genuinely one of the most exciting and remarkable collections of debut novels I&#8217;ve seen in my career. It&#8217;s going to be a great year for fiction.&#8221;</p>
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