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Every time I return to this book, I want to reread it immediately.

I loved this novel. It is such fun. And it reminded me of that joyful feeling you get from reading Terry Pratchett

This bit from Deborah Levy's The Cost of Living always makes me laugh because it's SO true. I know *so* many men who say 'my wife' or 'my girlfriend' instead of giving them names. 🤷🏻‍♀️

What’s the point if The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas can make its author rich, but no one is willing to stop it happening again. We will be publishing post memory novels written about the Palestinian genocide in 60 years, making money from the greatest grief a people can know.

Going out. Put on some eyeliner to compensate for the fact my 2 year old spent all day smearing his hands on these jeans 🤷🏻‍♀️

I wrote a poem about kissing my son on his eyelids at night. In this week’s The TLS 🧡

Writing something about Deborah Levy's The Cost of Living today and flipping through my copy..... I've basically underlined every other sentence 💛

Sharing this again because it's been tumbleweeds here but I've had some awesome response on insta.

YA/middlegrade books about boys having real world relationships please!!!🙏🏻💫📚

Such a hateful party. The world is at war, children are being blown apart with British bombs, we’re heading towards climate collapse and no one can afford housing. The NHS is in crisis. There are people experiencing homelessness at record levels. A waste of a political voice.

People of London. Pick up your fucking dog shit. So fucking sick of dodging it literally every single day taking my son to and from school. 😡🙄

Dreamy day Charltonlido

'Getting that rubber stamp that I wasn't a feckless dickhead continually failing at life felt so crucial'. Strongly relate to this re ADHD diagnosis 💫

Just started Kat Brown's It's Not A Bloody Trend and it's every bit as brilliant as I hoped.

if rishi sunak really cared about 'sick note culture' he could just build a time machine and retract his insane 'eat out to help out' policy aka 'encouraging people to infect themselves and others with a virus that causes lifelong disability and chronic illness'. just a thought

Book PRs and readers! For my next Sonshine Magazine column: I'm looking for YA/middlegrade books which are focussed on boys having real world relationships (ie. Not adventure/fantasy). Please do get in touch with your hot tips!

A Champions League campaign to be proud of. 👏