Opinion | Without the burden of affirmative action, Harvard can finally become a true meritocracy by Jared Kushner and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The best obituary you’ll read. True in every particular. Daniel Mendelsohn nybooks.com/articles/2023/… via The New York Review of Books

‘A magnificent novel’ 😭 All thanks to Anna Bonet and The i Paper for naming SECOND SELF a best book for July inews.co.uk/culture/books/…

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Thank you Kate Sawyer for having me on Novel Experience. Talking arts criticism, second novels, fertility and friendship, book recommendations … and whales! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/nov…

A week today! With @rhiannonlucyc at Waterstones Crouch End

Also next week!

And another! So looking forward to chatting with jenny mustard and Bethany at Waterstones Gower Street

Blurry happy book face | SECOND SELF is (officially) in all good bookshops today! Thanks to all at C&W Trapeze Books Orion Publishing and to all of YOU for cheering and reading

'My period being late should at least have been a nuisance. An unwelcome surprise, like rain without an umbrella, or off milk on cereal.' Out today with Hachette UK, we share an exclusive extract from Chloë Ashby's new novel, Second Self. Read here ➡️ bit.ly/46Dv1Aj

This is out today. It's wonderful and available at a good (UK) bookshop near you. (Not my fingers.)

This was fun! Many thanks to Hannah and Lydia for having me ❤️

Thank to Emily Rhodes + The Spectator for this lovely review of SECOND SELF 🐋 spectator.co.uk/article/pictur…

Very happy to see Chloë Ashby and SECOND SELF picked as one of Marie Claire’s best books of 2023! ✨ “A beautifully nuanced portrait of a woman at a crossroads. Hard recommend” ✨

Happy Sunday all🧡 It's only been out three days, but Chloë Ashby's novel is set to be one for the summer! Cathy finds escapism in the National Gallery, but soon she'll have to face life's questions Join us on Tuesday! £6 entry w/ wine £20 w/ book

A wonderful evening at Waterstones Crouch End listening to Chloë Ashby and @rhiannonlucyc talking so thoughtfully and beautifully about the question of whether to have a baby or not and their brilliant books #SecondSelf and #TheYearoftheCat

Monstrous art, @LaurenElkin writes, is weird and bold. ‘What makes it good – what sets it apart – is its commitment to a sometimes-scathing honesty.’ You could say the same for this superb book. My review for The Spectator spectator.co.uk/article/the-sh…

SECOND SELF in The TLS! Thank you to Alex Peake-Tomkinson for the thoughtful and generous review ✨ ‘Ashby should be applauded for the nuance with which she portrays the choices available to women’ the-tls.co.uk/articles/secon…

Take that in. Then try wrapping your head around the fact that we’re only seeing the beginning of a destabilising planet, while remembering that GHG emissions are still rising and the companies largely causing this are making record profits. A bit concerning, don’t you think?

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