Lidija Hilje
@lidijahilje.bsky.social
Author & Book Coach
Novel SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA 7/8/2025
Rep: CAA
Novel SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA 7/8/2025
Rep: CAA
So excited about this interview @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social! Thank you @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social for asking such insightful questions! And enormous thanks to @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social 🤍
"Learning to write in another language is humongously difficult. But I feel it gives me uniqueness in expressing myself." Vesna Jaksic Lowe interviews Croatian author Lidija Hilje about her debut novel, “Slanting Towards the Sea.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/we-are-born-with-a-homing-beacon/
August 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
So excited about this interview @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social! Thank you @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social for asking such insightful questions! And enormous thanks to @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social 🤍
Slanting Towards the Sea is an Editor’s Pick for Marie Claire! So thankful for this amazing review by Catherine Jarvie! 💕
And forever grateful for the best publicist, @jimenagorraez.bsky.social at @dauntbookspub.bsky.social 🤍
And forever grateful for the best publicist, @jimenagorraez.bsky.social at @dauntbookspub.bsky.social 🤍
The love you're all giving to ⛵SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA by @lidijahilje.bsky.social is just phenomenal 🙌
Huge thanks to @catherinejarvis.bsky.social for making it an Editor's Pick for Marie Claire.
💫 'Just beautiful.'💫
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Huge thanks to @catherinejarvis.bsky.social for making it an Editor's Pick for Marie Claire.
💫 'Just beautiful.'💫
www.marieclaire.co.uk/entertainmen...
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Think twisted romance, dark glamour and high-concept plots
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August 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Slanting Towards the Sea is an Editor’s Pick for Marie Claire! So thankful for this amazing review by Catherine Jarvie! 💕
And forever grateful for the best publicist, @jimenagorraez.bsky.social at @dauntbookspub.bsky.social 🤍
And forever grateful for the best publicist, @jimenagorraez.bsky.social at @dauntbookspub.bsky.social 🤍
Thank you so much for reading 💕
#SlantingTowardsTheSea by @lidijahilje.bsky.social I’m only two chapters in and this is giving me ALL the feels!
#amreading
#amreading
August 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Thank you so much for reading 💕
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'Beautiful, lush and deeply human' Words by Dion Everett for @nbmagazine.bsky.social on @lidijahilje.bsky.social stunning debut SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA. Out now!
www.nbmagazine.co.uk/editorialarc...
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Slanting Towards the Sea, Lidija Hilje — nb. Magazine
Review by Dion Everett
www.nbmagazine.co.uk
July 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
'Beautiful, lush and deeply human' Words by Dion Everett for @nbmagazine.bsky.social on @lidijahilje.bsky.social stunning debut SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA. Out now!
www.nbmagazine.co.uk/editorialarc...
www.nbmagazine.co.uk/editorialarc...
UK publication day for SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA was nothing short of a dream come true. I’m blessed with the best team @dauntbookspub.bsky.social and supported by the incredible bookselling family @dauntbooks.bsky.social. Thank you, thank you!!!
July 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
UK publication day for SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA was nothing short of a dream come true. I’m blessed with the best team @dauntbookspub.bsky.social and supported by the incredible bookselling family @dauntbooks.bsky.social. Thank you, thank you!!!
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To celebrate SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA by @lidijahilje.bsky.social here's a glowing review by Emily Goulding for @thespectator1828.bsky.social
‘Poignant and evocative, exploring first love with an intensity so raw that reading feels like pressing on a bruise.’
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
‘Poignant and evocative, exploring first love with an intensity so raw that reading feels like pressing on a bruise.’
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
The tragedy of a life not lived: Slanting Towards the Sea, by Lidija Hilje reviewed
‘He leaned in to kiss me. And when he did, something inside me reoriented itself, my world softly tipping into his direction, as if he himself were the sea.’ This is the story of Ivona and Vlaho, one ...
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July 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
To celebrate SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA by @lidijahilje.bsky.social here's a glowing review by Emily Goulding for @thespectator1828.bsky.social
‘Poignant and evocative, exploring first love with an intensity so raw that reading feels like pressing on a bruise.’
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
‘Poignant and evocative, exploring first love with an intensity so raw that reading feels like pressing on a bruise.’
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
Thank you, David! What a dream of a day it was! Thank you for your support 🤍
Happy publication day to @lidijahilje.bsky.social and her stunning debut novel SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA. It’s a beautiful book about love, family and long kept secrets set against the backdrop of an emerging Croatia, which almost feels like a character in itself.
@dauntbookspub.bsky.social
@dauntbookspub.bsky.social
July 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Thank you, David! What a dream of a day it was! Thank you for your support 🤍
My debut SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA is out today from @simonbooks.bsky.social
A sensual, decades-long love story set against the wild beauty of an emerging Croatia, exploring what it means to come of age in a country younger than oneself.
“Dynamite debut.” — Claire Lombardo.
A sensual, decades-long love story set against the wild beauty of an emerging Croatia, exploring what it means to come of age in a country younger than oneself.
“Dynamite debut.” — Claire Lombardo.
July 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
My debut SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA is out today from @simonbooks.bsky.social
A sensual, decades-long love story set against the wild beauty of an emerging Croatia, exploring what it means to come of age in a country younger than oneself.
“Dynamite debut.” — Claire Lombardo.
A sensual, decades-long love story set against the wild beauty of an emerging Croatia, exploring what it means to come of age in a country younger than oneself.
“Dynamite debut.” — Claire Lombardo.
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Looking like @dauntbookspub.bsky.social are publishing one of the best books of the year again. Currently in Croatia reading @lidijahilje.bsky.social’s SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA and it’s all kinds of wonderful!
June 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Looking like @dauntbookspub.bsky.social are publishing one of the best books of the year again. Currently in Croatia reading @lidijahilje.bsky.social’s SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA and it’s all kinds of wonderful!
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SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA by @lidijahilje.bsky.social comes out 7/8/25 from @simonschuster.bsky.social @ssedlib.bsky.social #croatia #summer #ComingOfAge #TwentyYears #BookSky get your @libraryreads.bsky.social votes in by 6/1!
May 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA by @lidijahilje.bsky.social comes out 7/8/25 from @simonschuster.bsky.social @ssedlib.bsky.social #croatia #summer #ComingOfAge #TwentyYears #BookSky get your @libraryreads.bsky.social votes in by 6/1!
So excited to share that my essay was published in @nytimes.com MODERN LOVE column. It’s a long time dream come true!
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/s...
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March 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
So excited to share that my essay was published in @nytimes.com MODERN LOVE column. It’s a long time dream come true!
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/s...
@dauntbookspub.bsky.social summer queen 😭 You really know the way to a girl’s heart 🫠🫠 Thank you for the opportunity to read!
We've just run through our July-Dec 2025 titles with our fabulous reps & our presentation incl a wonderful intro & reading from our summer queen @lidijahilje.bsky.social - proofs of #SlantingTowardsTheSea are now IN and looking dreeeamyyyy
Finally signed up for bluesky and how amazing that the #coverreveal of the UK edition of #slantingtowardsthesea gets to be my first post here☀️
February 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
@dauntbookspub.bsky.social summer queen 😭 You really know the way to a girl’s heart 🫠🫠 Thank you for the opportunity to read!
Finally signed up for bluesky and how amazing that the #coverreveal of the UK edition of #slantingtowardsthesea gets to be my first post here☀️
We're excited to reveal the cover for SLANTING TOWARDS THE SEA, publishing this July 🔅🌊
A hypnotic debut that sets a decades-long love story against the beautiful coastline of an emerging Croatia - sun, sea, food, a love triangle, this is pure escapism for lovers of Coco Mellors and Ann Napolitano
A hypnotic debut that sets a decades-long love story against the beautiful coastline of an emerging Croatia - sun, sea, food, a love triangle, this is pure escapism for lovers of Coco Mellors and Ann Napolitano
February 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Finally signed up for bluesky and how amazing that the #coverreveal of the UK edition of #slantingtowardsthesea gets to be my first post here☀️