Writer based in Yorkshire
In a new series on my blog, I will be writing essays of the texts I am currently studying for my Creative Writing MA course, including my own opinions on the piece as well as a look into the creative devices each writer employs. Black Box is a revitalising and unusual short story that was … Continue reading Black Box – BOOK REVIEW
In a new series on my blog, I will be writing essays of the texts I am currently studying for my Creative Writing MA course, including my own opinions on the piece as well as a look into the creative devices each writer employs. I would best describe Andrzej Tichý's book as that feeling you … Continue reading Wretchedness – BOOK REVIEW
Welcome to Britain and twelve very different people – mostly women, mostly black – who call it home. Teeming with life and crackling energy, ‘Girl, Woman, Other’ follows them across the miles and down the years. With vivid originality, irrepressible wit and sly wisdom, Bernardine Evaristo presents a gloriously new kind of history for this … Continue reading Girl, Woman, Other – BOOK REVIEW
Our Vows Put everything into wordspinging elastic bands at each other when we metordering pizza to survive the first night shiftnavigating the seas of an unexpected ten year gapdevouring your moody atmospheric musicleaving pillow notes the morning afterreminding you that you need to work lessstretching new love into long-distance livestravelling on crowded trains to reach … Continue reading Our Vows Poem + Life update
Breathe in and out and notice Five things you can see cracked floorboards stretch away hair balls simmer along skirting boards iced with dust lost socks marooned under my bed Four things you can hear downstairs’ TV muffling outsides’ traffic distancing my breathing suffocating rain falling Three things you can touch cracks between the cracked … Continue reading Mindfulness
Minimum £300 for a gift please. As soon as Anna has typed the words, she winces, remembering what her mother said. “It’s because none of the guests are your friends.” She wheels back in her chair and focuses on the items on her desk; her line of vision is instantly drawn to the faint scratch-marks … Continue reading The Gift List
The balloons on the staircase should have been a giveaway, but Grace had other concerns. Her mum’s house was the only other place she could have gone. She still had a house key, so she texted ahead to check if they were in; they were all out for the day. Recounting the list in her … Continue reading Surprise
I have MANY thoughts about If Only I Could Tell You written by British author Hannah Beckerman; some positive, some not so positive. Overall I did enjoy reading it, but in the end, decided it's just not my usual genre. As a little prelude to this review, I should introduce Book Club - born out … Continue reading If Only I Could Tell You – BOOK REVIEW
It was a string of Instagram posts that introduced me to Sally Rooney; it was a conversation at work that persuaded me to read her. One of my former colleagues said to me one lunchtime, "I keep hearing things about that Sally Rooney and I'm not sure how much longer I can ignore her!" It … Continue reading Normal People and Conversations with Friends – BOOK REVIEW
