by jenna | Feb 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by Claire | Feb 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
Inspiration for the ruins of Dunamayne Castle in Maxine Morrey’s ‘Just Say Yes’! During Maddie’s trip to Ireland for the wedding, things get a little tense between her and Lorcan, and like all good Irish mammmies, Maria knows just what to do and turfs them out...
by jenna | Feb 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by jenna | Feb 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by Nia Beynon | Feb 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by Nia Beynon | Feb 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
