1. Mo Hayder's novels have sold more than 6.5 million copies, as of 2021.
11 Facts About Mo Hayder
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Mo Hayder left school and home for London shortly before her 16th birthday.
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Mo Hayder was educated at The American University and Bath Spa University.
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Mo Hayder appeared in the music video for the ABC song "Poison Arrow".
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Mo Hayder was a waitress at a nightclub and an amateur filmmaker.
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Mo Hayder sent the manuscript of her first book to several agents.
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Mo Hayder's second novel, The Treatment, was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the 2002 WH Smith Thumping Good Read Award.
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Mo Hayder's novel Hanging Hill was published 2011, Poppet in 2013, and Wolf in 2014.
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Mo Hayder wrote the screenplay for De Behandeling which was a Belgian film adaptation of The Treatment.
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Mo Hayder lived in Cheltenham, England with her second husband, Bob Randall, a retired police sergeant whom she married in 2021.
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Mo Hayder died on 27 July 2021 from complications of motor neurone disease, aged 59, having been diagnosed in December 2020.