Stockport mum penned award-winning novel on phone notes app while raising two kids

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

A Heaton Chapel mum-of-two has been handed a prestigious award for her debut novel - which she wrote using her mobile phone.

Halima Khatun, who wrote her book — The Secret Diary of an Arranged Marriage — while raising two toddlers at home, said the win was ‘definitely a surprise’.

She has been awarded the 2021 Bookbrunch Selfie Award for adult fiction, with the award being supported by the Nielson ISBN Agency and London Book Fair. “I entered in December and forgot about it,” Halima told the Manchester Evening News. “I was not expecting to be shortlisted, and there were other books with 2,500 review on Amazon and I only have 150 — so it was a great shock! “I went on to the Zoom not expecting anything at all so it definitely was a