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Just heard this and heart it: ‘I'm always interested in how people use language to not say what they mean.’ Greta Gerwig

Dazzling sea-swept mystery The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex is one of the fiction highlights of the spring, and if you order before midnight on 3 March you'll be in with the chance of winning a stay at the Artist Residence Hotel Cornwall. Details here: waterstones.com/win/the-lampli…

Completely blown away by the coverage for #TheLamplighters in this weekend’s nationals. Feeling tearful and so, so lucky this Sunday morning 🌊🙏:

As part of a collaborative project I’m writing a letter to myself a year ago. Wondering if I should just *not tell her*

One year on, and somehow this is still true.

Happiest of publication days to you Emma Stonex for The Lamplighters waterstones.com/book/the-lampl… The kindest & most generous of friends and a f***ing incredible writer

Every time I hear ‘self-care’ I automatically convert it in my head to ‘government support and meaningful societal change’ so I can stay clear on what’s actually needed

During my 5-y-o’s class zoom she got inside the dog crate (a cage) and locked it, kept the camera on her & was silent for the whole call. Optics weren’t *great*

The blueberries I dropped in the sink elected to do this, and it’s pleasing

There’s music on the Kings Cross bookshop boat again

The foam-heart under the lid of a takeaway coffee is the best most pointless thing

7 year old: Why do you keep deleting the Twitter app and then reinstalling it and then deleting it and then reinstalling again? Me: So I don’t waste time

Sunday swim in the pouring rain, feels real

This morning watched a tiny snail with a translucent white shell in the captivating beauty of slowness, and yet when my son takes a while to put his shoes on it’s... different

The real reason they discourage MRIs during pregnancy is because then people would realise they’re incubating nightmare demons and would be rightfully terrified

This is a bit smiley

This is brutal and brilliant and bittersweet and actual sweet and I want more please

My characters went quiet, and a wise woman suggested I ask them questions - writing with my right hand, and letting them reply with my left hand. So you know, it works, and also it is Absolutely F***ing Terrifying