Meeting My Younger Self by Amanda Brookfield

Meeting My Younger Self by Amanda Brookfield

Alice Alone: Meeting My Younger Self I started to write ‘Alice Alone’ when I was twenty-five and working as a freelance journalist in Buenos Aires.  It felt daring – and exposing! – to be trying my hand at fiction, so I deliberately created characters and a situation...
Female Friendships by Samantha Tonge

Female Friendships by Samantha Tonge

Happy Galentines Day! 💕 Samantha Tonge is here with a blog post about the power of female friendships and relationships! Read all about it below ⬇️✨   When I was a younger woman, the benchmark for female friendship, in my opinion, was that portrayed in Sex and the...
For the love of friends by Gillian Harvey

For the love of friends by Gillian Harvey

It might be Valentines Day but Gillian Harvey’s brand new book One French Summer is the perfect Galentines Day read, with one of the main themes being female friendships. 💫 To tell us a little more about how this inspired her writing, Gillian has written us a...
The Inspriation for An Island in the Sun by Kate Frost

The Inspriation for An Island in the Sun by Kate Frost

In 2019, when we needed someone to look after our dog Frodo while we were away, we joined TrustedHousesitters. After setting up our profile, uploading plenty of photos of our house and a rather photogenic Frodo, then publishing the dates of when we needed a sitter, we...