Sarah Crossan
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Writer. New YA verse novel WHERE THE HEART SHOULD BE out now. New novel HEY, ZOEY for adults out in May ✨ Carnegie medal winner and some other stuff too ☘️
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🌟 BOOK NEWS 🌟
I have a new novel for adults called HEY, ZOEY coming May 2024
@BloomsburyBooks
🇬🇧🇮🇪 & June 2024
@littlebrown
🇺🇸 And here is the incredibly stylish jacket designed by the brilliant Gregg Kulick
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Delighted to say that WHERE THE HEART SHOULD BE — my first YA verse novel for 5 yrs (!) will be published March 14th by
@KidsBloomsbury
. It’s a novel that has taken me 12 yrs to write. I hope people like it— and also hope, if you enjoyed my other novels, you’ll preorder it! 😉😘
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So very sad to hear about Brendan Kennelly’s passing — RIP to an inspiring writer who really did believe poetry belongs to us all. I included what is probably his most popular poem ‘Begin’ in Tomorrow Is Beautiful.
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HELLO BEAUTIES! Look 👀 , a book
#giveaway
— a signed copy of my first ever anthology
#TomorrowIsBeautiful
with a few little extras including a gorgeous shiny pin! 🧡💛💙 RT to enter before noon 24th Sept GMT. (Hope your day is going well 😘)
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Did a load of school events last week. Notes for anyone organising an author visit and wanting the kids REALLY engaged— here’s what helps: a headteacher visible before/after, teachers not marking at the back, kids knowing who I am and why I’m there, tech working perfectly …😘
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There is NO SUBSTITUTE for a passionate, qualified librarian in a school no matter how keen the staff member in charge of the books might be. I was reminded of this last week when I visited
@KSCLibrarian
and her students — students who devour books and see reading as a JOY!👏🎉
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Realism in fiction for kids isn’t about abandoning innocence and joy. Realism gives children a place to be seen. Fantasy provides escape. Magical tales and realism do not stand in opposition. There is space for all stories on the smorgasbord of kids’ lit. And value in all books❤️
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A really gentle reminder to anyone wanting to be a writer: WRITE. Love the craft. Take it slowly. Enjoy art and the world around you. Make good work. The rest will come. Focusing on being agented or published is a mistake. With love, S x
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Just want to kindly ask that people avoid referring to WHERE THE HEART SHOULD BE as a book about the “potato” famine. The potato blight caused a problem but there was actually enough food on the island. The issue was distribution of the food and governance of that distribution.
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To celebrate
#StPatricksDay
I’m giving away a signed copy of my new book. RT today to enter PLUS follow one of the following authors💚:
@KMcCaughrain
@Marielouisefit1
@AlNolan
@OisinMcGann
@SarahCAuthor
@JMitchellwriter
@cgmoore_author
@sarahwebbishere
@PJLynchArt
@chrishaughton
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WHERE THE HEART SHOULD BE has been selected for the Radio 2 BBC book club in March. It’s my birthday today and it made my day! Thank you
@readingagency
and librarians for pushing it on people months before it’s even been published 💚
@BBCRadio2
@ZoeTheBall
@KidsBloomsbury
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IT’S OUT TODAY!! After 12 years in the making. And so much fun at the launch for WHERE THE HEART SHOULD BE last night at the
@LDNIrishCentre
. Thank you to everyone who came along — it meant so much to see your beautiful faces.
@beatricemay
thank you for organising xxx
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This is the scary bit … it’s my first ever novel set in Ireland AND my first ever historical novel AND my first ever romance. Hence the 12 year thing! ❤️ 🇮🇪
Delighted to say that WHERE THE HEART SHOULD BE — my first YA verse novel for 5 yrs (!) will be published March 14th by
@KidsBloomsbury
. It’s a novel that has taken me 12 yrs to write. I hope people like it— and also hope, if you enjoyed my other novels, you’ll preorder it! 😉😘
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At Gatwick on my way to Dublin for the first time since the pandemic hit. I used to visit at least once a month but it’s been 18 months. Can’t express how giddy I am to be on my way home, even for a flying visit. ❤️ 🇮🇪
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Creativity is a renewable resource but you need to be fallow sometimes and just notice the world. If you’re as I was for a long time — STUCK— maybe your brain needs a rest, refuel and reset. Just a maybe.
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For
#NationalPoetryDay
I’d like to share a new poem by me called ‘Notes From The Pit’ which is included in
#TomorrowIsBeautiful
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Thank you sweet friends for coming to my
#TOMORROWISBEAUTIFUL
launch and thank you
@booknookhove
and
@beatricemay
for organising. 💕 (Also, find someone who looks at you like I look at
@holly_bourneYA
)
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The cover for TOMORROW IS BEAUTIFUL, designed by Jet Purdie, has been revealed. Thanks
@clpe1
! Poems to mend your heart coming in Sept from
@KidsBloomsbury
. If you’d like to order a signed hardback, contact
@booknookhove
❤️
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What sort of weirdo sits reading their own book in bed? Me that’s who! And why? Because I basically created an anthology so I’d have all my favourite poems in one place and
@KidsBloomsbury
fell for it and published Tomorrow Is Beautiful!! Mwahahaha!!! Love this one:
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Gosh— thank you so much to The Bookseller for making WHERE THE HEART SHOULD BE editor’s choice 💚
“Desperately romantic, deeply moving and pin sharp on the horrors England inflicted on Ireland… one of Crossan’s finest books yet.”
Editor’s Choice in The Bookseller for
@SarahCrossan
and WHERE THE HEART SHOULD BE. Publishing March ‘24.
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The trick with offering such low fees to authors for events is that writers with massive sales don’t need the money, and those doing less well desperately need the exposure. So it’s up to the higher profile authors to decline low/no fee events— set the precedent.
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WHERE THE HEART SHOULD BE is children’s book of the week in The Times. “…beautifully written… tightly observed… completely absorbing….This is a novel for young adults, but I can imagine adults of all ages devouring it.” Thank you
@TimesLucy
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Wishing you all a beautiful new year. May you fearlessly embrace joy and may your sadness lose its sharp edges in 2024 💚
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Sometimes even writing fiction can be scary when I think about the questions I’m bound to be asked in interviews. And then I remind myself that I don’t owe anyone my personal story.
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Author visit today is at my daughter’s school— but the senior bit so she won’t have to watch. Still, she’s mortified.
“Mama, please don’t embarrass me. Don’t mention me and don’t try to be funny.”
Me:
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Finished copies of WHERE THE HEART SHOULD BE are gorgeous in neon coral. Thank you
@Cecelia_Ahern
@philearle
@holly_bourneYA
@PForde123
@katyabalen
@SitaBrahmachari
&
@EarlyTrain
for blurbs. And
@PetraBraunIllu
and Thy Bui for such the art work and design
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Really irresponsible questions from interviewer on Women’s Hour
@BBCRadio4
RE sexual assault and consent right now. Absolutely unacceptable.
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@BBCWomansHour
@DrJessTaylor
@RVT9
Your handling of this discussion was irresponsible. There are no grey areas in this point of law — a person must be able to provide consent but cannot if asleep. A “debate” was inappropriate and took power from victims of assault. Very ugly listening.
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This is such a sad loss. An inspiring poet and man. RIP Benjamin Zephaniah 😞
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Proofs are in the house! It’s a story about love in all its forms. And about hate too ❤️🩹
#wheretheheartshouldbe
(March 2024)
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The Final Year by
@EarlyTrain
is every bit is excellent as everyone is saying and a superb choice for a Year 5/6 class reader. It’s a proper verse novel (written in dialect) by a poet who understands how narratives for kids work. I’m late to the party but it’s a damn good party🌟
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You’re questioning a point of law. If you cannot consent because you are asleep and someone has sex with you, it is rape. There are no “grey area” in this point of law and reading out texts from listeners about how they “love sleepy sex” is beyond abhorrent
@BBCRadio4
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I damaged my eye in Feb and it wouldn’t bloody heal. Chronic ulcerations and treatments that were SO OUCHY! 😭 But today the consultant said it all looks good! YAY!! Thank you
@Moorfields
, Sussex Eye Hospital and NHS ❤️ I will never take my sight for granted again.
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I feel like an ego maniac hoarding the foreign editions of my novels so I’ve made this for my office and recycled most of the books
#OneWorld
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Book news coming tomorrow… For now, please enjoy this sunset — I did xx ❤️
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🌈 Where do bad rainbows go? Prism. It’s a light sentence and gives them time to reflect.
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This “he was always friendly and non-rapey to me” argument is so infantile. The most manipulative, narcissistic, toxic people are probably charming in 99% of their encounters. So asserting how cool a person is in your experience speaks ONLY to your experience.
#believewomen
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I need your favourite tragically romantic films. And god help me not Titanic. I love Call Me By Your Name/ Portrait Of a Lady on Fire/Amelie — poeticism, beauty and passion that will have me sobbing into my cushions please…
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TOMORROW IS BEAUTIFUL is out! I hope you find comfort in its pages 🧡💙🧡 Massive gratitude to the
@KidsBloomsbury
team esp
@DuncanZoe
who worked so hard on this and should be named as co-editor.
So… Which poems fill your heart with hope?
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I am working on the copy edits of my next book. It is a sad book. It is a very sad book. I think it may have to be my final sad book because I’m pretty much sadded out! You’re welcome!
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This piece has made me quite tearful. It is true that there is this loneliness in being Irish in England, and for me of finding ways to retain that sense of being Irish whilst acknowledging that much of my identity also resides beyond it.
Born in Kent to Irish parents, he also gave voice to an Irish-English generation, writes author Joseph O'Connor.
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We have waited so excitedly for this beauty. Happy pub day lovely Lauren and Clarice Bean! (SPOILER: It’s incredible 💕)
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I rarely give writing advice cos I’m still learning. Every new book is a mountain I’ve never climbed before. But one thing I know for sure is that when I don’t over identify with the work I can write and reshape with more patience and clarity. Good luck this week, my friends x
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Try not to make any major decisions today or tomorrow, especially if you’re feeling emotional— I hear there’s a lunar eclipse coinciding with a full moon or something. Also, maybe you’re getting your period.
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Whenever Hilda gets a blow dry she looks utterly mortified. Hair cut next week 👀 ✂️
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Look who I ran into at
@booknookhove
today ✨…
@sophyhenn
and her incredible
#HappyHills
window. Get a signed copy right here:
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Thanks for all the positive feedback on TIB so far. It’s for anyone needing their cockles warmed, even in spring when our cockles are somewhat toasty already! Including poems by
@Anthony1983
@kwamealexander
and
@kerriepoetry
It’s dedicated to my mama. She was a hopeful woman 😊
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A launch event with
@MichaelRosenYes
and
@SitaBrahmachari
for WHERE THE HEART SHOULD BE on March 18 hosted by Goldsmiths — please do come along for what is sure to be an exciting evening of conversation about children’s literature
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My favourite social media post is when someone says “a lot of people asking when/if I…”
NO ONE IS ASKING. I repeat… NO ONE IS EVER ASKING.
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Happy
#NationalPoetryDay
— and a special hey to anyone nervous about reading poetry — please don’t be: there’s a perfect poem out there desperate for you to find it and fall in love with it ❤️
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The readers struggling to believe poetry might be for them are rarely undergraduate lit students grappling with meaning. They are the people failed by education. Accessibility is therefore about asking what it is the ordinary reader needs in order to be a part of the conversation
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Ah, HERE it is: the point in my novel writing process when I think ‘should it be prose?’ after having written 20k in verse. So I start again and write 20k in prose just to find out. And I do this back and forwards 10 times! Anyway, yes, verse novels are short and quick and easy😭
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Sunset in Hove was at 4.04pm — goodbye 2023 — thank you for the lessons ❤️ 🌊
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Took an incredible trip out today with a marine biologist and saw 100s of Atlantic spotted dolphins plus dozens of pilot whales and a loggerhead sea turtle. Please don’t visit animals like these in captivity—they are so beautiful and playful in the wild 🌊 ❤️
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Lauren Child: “children’s books should be taken seriously”. Looking forward to discussing this tonight at 7pm
@FoundlingMuseum
with Lauren, Sara Fanelli and
@hannahbeckerman
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Publishing Thursday, so is it even really a pre-order at this stage?!
#TomorrowIsBeautiful
Including poems by
@kwamealexander
@Anthony1983
@kaetempest
@victoriaadukwei
@JayHulmePoet
@kerriepoetry
@EarlyTrain
AND MORE!
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Me forgetting I don’t work at Waystar: A workshop? Tell them to fuck off. They get a 50 min talk and I better have a parking spot reserved.
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This all day long. It’s how I got my first book deal: stealing time from my ordinary life to write the thing I loved. Don’t wait to have a literary life before living your literary life 💪
for me, my books aren't written in week-long staycations by the sea or months away from other work, but in short regular pockets of time e.g. 1 hr right now in a cafe & in bursts of 25min pomodoro sessions. the obsession with wanting long stretches of free time can get in the way
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.
@elonmusk
Rather than going to Mars, how about saving millions of Afghan children from starvation?
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I love the work of
@PetraBraunIllu
— so grateful she took time away from other projects to work on the jacket for WHERE THE HEART SHOULD BE 🧡 💙
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You don’t have to understand the poem. Try instead to explore the ways in which it might understand you. (Night, birdies xxx)
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Book of the Week in The Sunday Times today. Thank you
@NicoletteJones
“With tenderness and unexpected humour, this story is irresistibly emotive as events unfold with almost unbearable tension.”
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Please join me in supporting this fabulous campaign so that all children might have a magical Xmas
#JustOneBook
Christmas won’t be magical for every child.
This year we want to send more surprise festive book parcels than ever before and light up Christmas for 16,000 children who are vulnerable or in care. ✨
Can you help?
#JustOneBook
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I love this speech. Congratulations
@paullynchwriter
on taking the Booker Prize home to Ireland 🌟
‘This was not an easy book to write.’
Watch
@paullynchwriter
's
#BookerPrize2023
acceptance speech.
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Beautiful conditions along the seafront this morning. And I managed 10 miles! It’s the furthest I’ve run since I had my daughter 11 years ago 🌟 GOOD MORNING ❤️
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Saw some more theatre today and it was horrendous but that’s OK because THEATRE IS BACK! ❤️ 🎭
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What a longlist! Can’t wait to get stuck in to these. But at the moment I would LOVE to see Claire Kilroy win. It was my novel of 2023.
#SoldierSailor
We are thrilled to reveal the 2024
#WomensPrize
for Fiction longlist sponsored by
@baileys
and
@audible
. 16 luminous novels to take you to different worlds, to share, recommend, love and pass on. Which ones are you excited to get your hands on?
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But this is all writing I guess. Deleting the crap. Rewriting. Deleting. Rewriting. Not trying to prove anything but just improving inch by inch… This is what it is for me anyway.
Ah, HERE it is: the point in my novel writing process when I think ‘should it be prose?’ after having written 20k in verse. So I start again and write 20k in prose just to find out. And I do this back and forwards 10 times! Anyway, yes, verse novels are short and quick and easy😭
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Authors— What’s the shortest time it’s taken you to write a middle grade/YA/adult novel?
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What a beautiful evening ~ thank you everyone for attending and thank you esp
@sarahwebbishere
@HalfwayUpBooks
@WonderFestIre
for hosting and
@EarlyTrain
@victoriaadukwei
and
@kerriepoetry
for speaking and agreeing to be included in
#TomorrowIsBeautiful
in the first place ❤️
"Accessibility is important to me"
@SarahCrossan
talks about how it's so important to not gatekeep poetry from teenagers. We don't do it with any other artform, so why do we say there's a right and wrong way to appreciate poetry?
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Highly recommend the amazing
@ourplaceearth
trail now in Derry but moving to Belfast, then Cambridge and North Down.
@OliverJeffers
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Today is the day! Go out right now and buy WELCOME TO THE HYUNAM-DONG BOOKSHOP. It’s one of the most wonderful books I’ve read this year. Like a warm, sincere hug in this scary world 😊
@BloomsburyBooks
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I am loving this. Makes me want to do nothing but run and write. I bought it 10 years ago and only just reading it now. It’s curious how that happens with some books. Wondering what other people have on their TBR piles that they have been meaning to get to for years…
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I ran a half marathon this morning and it was lovely but also bloomin’ hard. But hey, lads… WE CAN DO HARD THINGS!!! I saw lots of beach huts 😊 🌊
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What a beautiful idea for an award! “an Irish author whose work has contributed significantly to the reader experience and enjoyment of Irish books during 2021.” Just wondering whether any children’s authors did this in 2021…! 👀 😬 😘
Now, the
@LAIonline
Author of the Year 👀
Congratulations to all shortlisted authors 👏🏼
@MumblinDeafRo
@Lizzienugent
@mariankeyes
@john_boyne
@PenguinIEBooks
@Ofmooseandmen
@headlinepg
#APIBAS
#ReadersWanted
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I absolutely devoured and loved this debut novel by Hwang Bo-Reum — so gentle and invigorating— from
@BloomsburyBooks
in Oct. Pre-order recommended 🌟
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Holly’s novel is brilliant and frightening. If you know a teenage girl, pre-order this for her as the best gift she’ll receive this year. Out next week xxx 💕
Absolutely obsessed with the double front cover of my latest YA novel, You Could Be So Pretty. A dystopian 'beauty myth for teens' that will get you to question everything!! Out in Sept. Pre-order now. designed by amazing
@willsteele
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Claire Kilroy has written the best novel I’ve ever read on motherhood in the early years— that sense of being trapped, lost, exhausted, bored and resentful. But the book itself is a beacon of hope. And it’s funny too! So read it! 🌟
@FaberBooks
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If you like your true crime without gore or violence, I highly recommend the Sweet Bobby podcast
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And thanks everyone for being very cool and chatting with my relatives who showed up unexpectedly 💚
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Hello! My 11 yr old daughter is raising money for
@Shelter
and would be so grateful for even £1 of your support ❤️ (end date will be July 11 😬)
100 Days of Walking for Shelter
Help Sarah Crossan raise money to support Shelter
www.justgiving.com
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First rainless run in a week — and no wind either! 😊 🏃🏼♀️ ☀️
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My daughter is 11 and has just asked, for the the first time, if we can pop to M&S after dinner ‘to pick up a few bits’
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So late to the party (and came without a bottle) but bloody well done
@lizzienugent
on this fabulously written, gripping novel — I love Sally 💔
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DUP are an utter disgrace
"While this is a sad day for Northern Ireland, it is a shameful day for the DUP"
Alliance Party leader Naomi Long criticises members of the DUP for taking their salaries but refusing "to take their seats and do the work to earn it"
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Real Q. If you don’t have your phone in your bedroom at night, what do you use as a wake up alarm? Old fashioned clock? Trying to find ways to spend less time with my phone. I have my Apple Watch for emergencies when I’m out for but bedtimes are trickier…. 😬 ⏰
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Goodnight you bunch of glittering glam rockers! Hope your day was glorious (or at least bearable— 💕 💔 )💋 😘 ❤️
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I’m back in
@hayfestival
this May and cannot wait to lead astray a whole new gang of teenagers. Booking now for my WHERE THE HEART SHOULD BE event.
Teachers! Parents!
Your free Hay Festival schools programme is OUT NOW, bringing together writers and young people for a series of interactive events in person and online, 23–24 May.
Book now
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