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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...

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...

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 post!...

Like Elizabeth Dewhurst, the heroine of THE WEEKEND, most of us grow up in normal houses, with very normal families. I personally grew up in a mining village. A terraced house, that didn’t have a real indoor bathroom until I was around four years old and even then, we...

As some of you may know, my ambition when I was small, was to be a vet. This wasn’t possible but writing about my character, Phoebe Dashwood, who’s a vet at Puddleduck Farm, is the next best thing.  I have dogs and ex-battery hens and so spend my fair share of time at...

Debbie Young on her latest cozy mystery Murder Lost and Found 📚 “Murder Lost and Found”, the seventh in my Sophie Sayers Cozy Mystery series, is very special one for me, because it marks the completion of the original cycle of seven stories that I’d planned to write....

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...

My favourite places are wild places – secret beaches where the sand meets the ocean, where you can wade out and feel the coolness of the salty water. Places to stand barefoot on dry earth, listening to cicadas, feeling the sun on your skin. Forests of ancient trees,...