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Sins of My Father ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Guardian Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Academic. Co-ed #WildandPreciousLife co-founder @londonlitlab

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Dr Lily Dunn
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So excited to finally mention this documentary! It evolved from my friendship with Maroesja and our feeling that the truth hadn't been addressed in Wild Wild Country - the abuse of the kids within the communes. It's a fantastic and necessary film and I urge you all to watch it.
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Pleased to announce the release of my new feature doc 'Children of the Cult', which will be screened in cinemas in the UK and broadcast on ITV Exposure on 13 October 2024. For more information please see:
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In the 1970s my mum won a writing competition and the prize was a job at Vogue. One day, Barry Lategan took her from the Hanover Square office to take photographs of her in Battersea Park. This then appeared in the summer issue of Vogue. My beautiful mum. #SinsOfMyFather #memoir
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From now on I may be otherwise know as Doc Dunn - just passed by PhD with a few very minor corrections, involving a semi colon or two. Can’t quite believe it, the girl who only got 4 GCSEs, no maths, too. Thank you to @JuliaBell for believing in me. And my lovely family
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Still trying to work out what I think about this... but the thread of comments on her vitals are so disgusting and so revealing of what a fucked up society we’re in right now that maybe she is revealing the truth by bravely standing naked.
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'I invite Jacob Rees-Mogg to a naked debate about Brexit!' 🗣️ Cambridge lecturer Dr Victoria Bateman, who campaigns against Brexit while naked, challenges the Brexiteer MP #r4today
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When your academic PhD supervisor, after a final real, asks you to delete a few rogue full stops and make all the quote marks curly from straight, but signs off his email with 'this is good to go' - after five years, a divorce, a relocation, many midnight panics, I am weeping.
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My daughter has been ill for almost a month with post Covid fatigue and we are not yet out of the woods, but the old spice of her teenage self is returning, and she went out today for the first time, no longer dizzy, no longer weary. I want to cry with relief.
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Officially now Doc Lily Dunn after a moving ceremony at Birkbeck. The first in my family to have a PHD, and after only passing 4 GCSES. Thank you Mum for carrying me, my children and Robin for loving me, and @JuliaBell for seeing my potential. What a day.
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We all know that most writers don’t earn much, but in the midst of the pandemic I got a book deal, and having not travelled abroad with my kids since me and their dad divorced I booked a special holiday. We arrived yesterday after complex forms, checks, tests, and … just look
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This is super exciting. You don't know how long I've waited to share this news with you all. And I managed to land one of the best nonfiction editors around. My heart... @jennyjennylord
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. @wnbooks has acquired Sins of My Father: A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling, a "dazzling" literary memoir from @Lilydunnwriter about her attempt to unravel the mysteries of her late father's life:
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After a year of being agent-less (long story), I am thrilled to now be represented by Cathryn Summerhayes, @Taffyagent who is very excited about my memoir, Starman... which will hopefully see the light of day some time reasonably soon (by publishing during a pandemic standards).
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2 years
You know that feeling when commissions come in, and as a writer you feel WANTED? @Mslexia have asked me to write a series on memoir and I’m bloody thrilled ❤️❤️✍🏼 #HappyWritingDay everyone.
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4 years
Today I finished my manuscript, a final draft of my memoir, which I've been writing for four years, and has morphed and changed with the mammoth shifts in my life. My dad and the legacy of his self destructive, compulsive addictive flight here on what looks like one tiny page.
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So excited to share this! As a teacher and writer of #memoir I have been turning again and again to US publications for advice on how to write it, because there are so few craft books in the UK, so I thought I'd write my own! Here it is! #WritingCommunity
Manchester Uni Press snaps up Dunn's book on the craft of memoir writing

Manchester University Press has snapped up Into Being: The Radical Craft of Memoir and its Power to Transform  by academic Lily Dunn. 

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Dr Lily Dunn
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3 years
Have just heard that I’ve been awarded a @Soc_of_Authors award to write my next book! Thank you THANK YOU. These guys also gave me a grant when we hit the pandemic. What a fantastic support for writers. Next book - Here I come!! #SoAGrants
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Happy Publication Day to me!
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Happy Publication Day for ‘Sins of my father’ and the brilliant @Lilydunnwriter - really looking forward to a weekend hurkle-durkle reading this memoir.
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It's not every day that you get offered a permanent academic contract without even applying for a job. I've been working at @BSUCreativeW as an associate lecturer for about five years and then they offered me some security. This is good news.
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BOOK BLOODY HEAVEN #SinsOfMyFather 👀👀⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️👀👀❤️😍♥️
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@KatyaTaylor @nataliesedacca @DrEllaC I took this near Canonbury Square some years ago. The next time I went back someone had cut the bush and painted over the thighs. 😒
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Is anyone else feeling a bit stressed with managing children, creative projects and paid work? Just reaching out for a virtual communal hum hug ❤️😘😊☺️🤗🤗🤗
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When I was 15 I dated a 32 year old for nearly 2 years. He was my first boyfriend. The difference in age meant there was an extreme imbalance of power, and it took years for me to process the damage done to me psychologically having this entry into relationships. #RusselBrand
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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Russell Brand has been accused of rape and sexual assaults by women who have broken their silence on alleged attacks between 2006 and 2013 This is a joint investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and @C4Dispatches ✍️ @RosamundUrwin @char_wace @pmorganbentley
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The most amazing review in The Spectator today by a writer who has read and understood my book. It is very strange reading a review of a book about your life, but I am so grateful for this. My hands are shaking... my heart #SinsOfMyFather
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Abandoned for a bogus guru – Lily Dunn’s harrowing family memoir

Sins of My Father begins with an ending. Describing her 61-year-old parent’s final desperate flight from a life of vibrant glitter, creativity and affluence, Lily Dunn reveals the extent to which it...

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3 years
Woke to this fabulous review this morning. It is beautiful and moving, and I am thrilled. Book of the Day #SinsOfMyFather Sins of My Father by Lily Dunn review – surviving a cult
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Sins of My Father by Lily Dunn review – surviving a cult

A daughter chronicles the reverberations of one man’s decision to abandon his family in pursuit of spiritual enlightenment

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Dr Lily Dunn
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3 years
Our precious babies arrived! I am over the moon with the production, the quality, the layout, the whole thing. It is utterly beautiful ⁦ @unbounders ⁩ and ⁦ @johnmitchinson ⁩ Thank you for helping us bring this wild and precious gorgeousness into the world.
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Dr Lily Dunn
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I am so bloody excited that my proofs have arrived, and don't they look beautiful?! Thank you so much W&N for such a stunning job. If you haven't yet pre-ordered my book, you can do it by clicking on this link: #SinsOfMyFather #Memoir
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On a dog walk and my phone kept pinging, and what?!?! Among best memoirs of 2022 judged by The Guardian with authors I love, @ali_l_millar and @mattrowlandhill - amazing what happens when you’re not looking!
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Dr Lily Dunn
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3 years
My book has actually arrived in real printed form, and that means it’s here. My book has arrived!
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3 years
Printer delivery! 👀 @Lilydunnwriter
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Oh wow. I spoke to the sixth form students at my old school, Camden School For Girls, about Sins of My Father and how my life is my writing, my writing my life, and if you truant it doesn’t mean you’re a loser! It was so heartwarming and I loved every minute of it #memoir
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So sad to hear of Martin Amis’s death. When I was just a young thing I appeared in the film adaptation of The Rachel Papers dancing at Cafe du Paris in Soho. It was one of the most exciting days of my life and I was paid £50. Here’s a screenshot. I’m the blonde one (not the man)
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Happy Publication Day to this precious little beauty. We so hope your stories will be cared for and loved in this world. That they will bring hope and joy to others. #publicationday #AWildAndPreciousLife #BookLaunchDay #amreading
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OMG I just sent my PhD to my supervisor - all 120,000 words of creative and critical... five years in the making... Please wish me luck everyone! I am proud but also a little bit scared.
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Dr Lily Dunn
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5 years
Have awoke to discover that my Aeon essay has made it to their top essays of the month with over 45,000 views!
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What my father’s infidelities taught me about intimacy | Aeon Essays

A polyamorous friend challenges me: are you really happily monogamous or are you just hung up about your philandering dad?

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Hello friends! Today is my birthday, which feels like the perfect day to share the cover of my paperback. Here I am, proud as punch to be on the arm of my beautiful, troubled father. Thank you @wnbooks , @jennyjennylord and @Taffyagent for helping bring this baby into the world.
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Dr Lily Dunn
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3 years
For those who don't know, Zoe Gilbert and I set up a little teaching outfit @londonlitlab 5 years ago. We work closely together and we are also very good friends. A lovely coincidence is that on 17th March both our second books are going to be published. @mindandlanguage
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Dr Lily Dunn
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1 year
I'm pondering on something... A fellow writer suggested that you can't write #memoir and be a good person - that you must be ruthless to do it & expect to hurt people. But what if the skill is finding ways of writing about people with compassion? I'd love to know your thoughts.
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Dr Lily Dunn
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My mum bought me this Folio edition of To The Lighthouse. How lovely is that?
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A big shout out to Bristol Hospital Education Service for getting my daughter through her GCSEs after suffering Long Covid these past 18 months. She finished today, and hand on heart she would not have got through them without BHES help. She has been given back her future.
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Dr Lily Dunn
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2 years
I saw two young women sitting at an outdoor table, rolling cigarettes and drinking wine and a thought passed my mind: I wish we could be suspended in youth, drinking crisp wine and smoking cigarettes with a girlfriend infinitely, never getting drunk, sick, growing old.
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Dr Lily Dunn
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We are live! Please support this important anthology of recovery stories, by sharing our crowdfunding page and pledging for a copy of our book! You can help make it happen. #addiction #recovery #Unheardvoices
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Dr Lily Dunn
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2 years
Very excited to see my first piece for my #memoir series in Mslexia this issue. It’s first of a few on Memoir and Self Healing #writingcommunity @Mslexia
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Dr Lily Dunn
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Very excited to discover my memoir made it into in The Times Best Paperbacks for March 2023 - and it looks like it's the only memoir in the nonfiction section... I wasnt expecting any more press with the paperback, but Yipeee! #memoir #WritingCommunity
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Dr Lily Dunn
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OMG in the service station going home after launch and look at what I found. BOOK OF THE WEEK #SinsOfMyFather
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One of those days when I have not stopped and done one thing for myself - full of appointments for my daughter (who is unwell), puppy and household stuff, and just as I sit down, my son declares he is feeling sick... then I remember: My paperback is published tomorrow. #memoir
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Dr Lily Dunn
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2 years
This really is a joy to behold. This is the week of my paperback launch. It’ll be in the shops on Thursday. So good to feel this little book of mine has another lease of life #SinsOfMyFather
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4 years
Have had the most emotional day. A finished memoir, a few tears with @JuliaBell and now this beautiful cover for my other ‘heart’ project. So proud of this book and everyone who has worked hard to nurture it to life
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Dr Lily Dunn
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5 years
To all you amazing people. Thank you so much for making this happen. Love you all.
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Dr Lily Dunn
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3 years
Despite the Covid odds, I made it to my hideaway
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Such an intense time publishing #SinsOfMyFather and I’ve been thinking about how hard won it was. How much rejection I had before getting here. I even lost an agent. If you’re struggling and it feels like you’re knocking on doors forever shut, keep at it. It only takes one.
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Dr Lily Dunn
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When I was a child I was abused by one of my dad's friends under the Rajneesh belief that virgins should be 'deflowered' by men as they would benefit from their maturity. For years I didn't realise this abuse was systemic and I absorbed it, thinking I had asked for it because
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This is a tedious fact that most of you won't be remotely interested in, but I have now written 22,519 words of my PhD thesis, and this is momentous from a girl who truanted away most of her education and got only four GCSEs... Yay to determination and self education...
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Dr Lily Dunn
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Am listening to the audio book of A Ghost in the The Throat, by Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Oh My Goodness, this is memoir and biography and beauty like no other. #BookRecommendations
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Dr Lily Dunn
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3 years
On holiday and the proofs for my literary memoir have arrived in my inbox. I feel a flutter...
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I’m going through my old photos as added a few to my proposal for my memoir about my father and came across this. Me in my beautiful mother’s arms. Such pure adoration and #love
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into the mainstream, and today finally The Sunday Times has printed some of these women's stories. This is the tip of the iceberg. We hope now that others will find the courage to speak out. Thank you @rosiekinchen #meToo #SexualAbuse #CultGirl #CultKids
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Abused in Osho, the middle-class sex cult that stole childhoods

In the late 1970s Rosalind Keefe’s parents left their home in Camberley, Surrey, for India, seeking spirituality and a better way of living. Interested in alter

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We received some exciting news this week. Our beautiful precious baby, A Wild and Precious Life will be distributed and sold in the U.S.A!! We are very excited to discover what they will make of it! #WritingCommunity #amwriting #recovery #addiction
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Dr Lily Dunn
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3 years
I am actually going to this secret hideaway for a week alone to write and I can’t even allow myself to realise that this is actually a reality about to happen in the next week. I am holding my breath...
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Dr Lily Dunn
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2 years
Crazy past year with the publication of Sins Of My Father, which was granted the Guardian and Spectator's best nonfiction books of 2022. And then I became a Dr. Thank you to all my readers and solid supporters here on Twitter. Have a creative and happy 2023. 😍🥰🎉🍾🎊🥳
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Dr Lily Dunn
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2 years
This is a Vivian Westwood coat and it is one of the most stunning garments I own. It was ravished by moths and I spent more than £100 getting the moth holes darned, but I am so darned pleased I did it. Very sad to see such an icon go. She made clothes for women’s curves. RIP VW
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Dr Lily Dunn
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2 years
First weeks of my paperback's life have been so good and exciting - excellent presence in Waterstones, reviews in the Times and Daily Mail, an event at Five Leaves, podcast interviews, and a reminder of how well it was received in hardback. My memoir's life continues... #memoir
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Dr Lily Dunn
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Dear dad, I still think of you and dream of you, but each year the memory of you is a little fainter, and your presence weaker. You no longer hurt me. Perhaps that is because you are no longer hurting yourself. I love you; I hate you. I miss you; I am free of you. 💔❤️‍🩹
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So excited to share the 5th in my series of interviews of memoirists, @marinab52 on the importance of contradiction and loose ends. That we should not be looking for a forced resolution in #memoir . So much to learn from here #writingcommunity
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The Aesthetic Memoir: Interview with Marina Benjamin - Lily Dunn

In this series of interviews, I will be talking to memoirists, both published and working towards publication, about their writing process, and how writing memoir has helped them better understand...

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2 years
I am back in my paradise. A week away from it all just me, my notebook, the view, the sea wind… and my beautiful teen daughter who has had post viral fatigue since Jan and needs her mum and the healing sea. This place soothes my soul and brings me back to myself.
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I am supposed to be doing a second pass on a really important essay but I can’t for the life of me concentrate on anything because I HAVE JUST SEEN MY BOOK COVER AND IT’S AMAZING 🤩 😍😘🍾🥳🍻👏🏼🥂🥂🥂🥂📚📖📒📗📘📙📕🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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I wrote a piece for @lithub about the aftermath of publishing my #memoir , and the dilemma of exposing the sins of our fathers, when we are taught to revere patriarchy. I reference memoirs I love, by @SafiyaSinclair and @NoreenMasud . You can read it here:
On Safiya Sinclair, Noreen Masud and Exposing the Sins of Our Fathers

Last year I published a memoir, Sins of my Father: A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling, which had been a lifetime in the making. I wanted to capture the complexity of loving a damaged man, and t…

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Had a good week: an author party in London, my editor clinging hold of this cheeky proof, a day at a spa, a late morning with jam bagel and coffee, but really… still need to pinch myself because these books are hard won. But, this is it.
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This is so exciting!
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‘A tremendously good memoir; a page-turning story of family complexity, and strikingly talented writing’ Delighted SINS OF MY FATHER by ⁦ @Lilydunnwriter ⁩ is an Editor’s Choice for March in this week’s ⁦ @thebookseller ⁩ ⁦ @CaroSanderson ⁩ has the best taste 🙏
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Here's a thing: A literary #agent wants to drop you, but instead they ignore your emails, phone calls, forget important dates or even your book launch in hope you drop them first. This is not about my brilliant agent, btw. BUT THIS IS REALLY BAD PRACTICE. Anyone experienced this?
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We’ve just reached 50% thanks to all you beautiful people. I’m going to go find a quiet corner in which to cry...
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Today is my Viva. I’ll let you know later if I progress to being Doc Dunn. If you don’t hear from me…
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Dr Lily Dunn
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2 years
My paperback has arrived! So strange to see my pesky face on the front, but I am so grateful for my amazing reviews. Thank you @Taffyagent and @jennyjennylord for making this happen, and @Leanne_Oliver1 for such good publicity. I am honoured to have been on this journey with you.
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This is a heartfelt plea - we're so close to being able to go back to the Arts Council to apply for a second round of funds to help us meet our target. Only 7% to go. Please please help us on this journey by pledging for a copy of this important book.
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Dr Lily Dunn
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Woke up thinking about this photo today. My beautiful mother; my troubled manipulative father; small and hopeful me trying to find my own story from between them. #memoir #amwriting #amredrafting
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3 years
Today I wrote a rough first chapter of my new book, which is a second memoir-of-sorts. I've been thinking about it for months and making notes, but there is nothing like committing that first chapter to the page for the whole thing to suddenly open up like a flower. It's working.
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5 years
A little scared about having this out there, but here it is... Published today!
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What my father’s infidelities taught me about intimacy | Aeon Essays

A polyamorous friend challenges me: are you really happily monogamous or are you just hung up about your philandering dad?

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Dr Lily Dunn
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4 years
I'm very proud of this essay, published yesterday by the brilliant @aeonmag about the special love that sisters share, and asking - how can such closeness so easily become rivalry? #amwriting #literature #psychology #psychoanalysis
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The deep envy of sisters can be a spur for love and creativity | Aeon Essays

Vanessa and Virginia – intimates in art, adversaries in love. Can we ever transcend the primal envy of the sisterly bond?

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Dr Lily Dunn
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3 years
Taking time off post launch of #SinsOfMyFather . Exhausted, but also overwhelmed by the generosity of you Twitter folk, and my readers. Publishing memoir is like opening your arms and asking for a hug. So grateful for the hugs I'm getting in response - imagine if you all ran away!
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3 years
Here it is! The most gorgeous book cover, ever, thank you @wnbooks . It is both painful and thrilling to see it step out into the world. If you want to have it delivered on the day of publication, you can pre order it here: #WritingCommunity #memoir
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3 years
When your PhD critical supervisor has read the 30,000 words that came tumbling out over six weeks having laid dormant and frightened for five years - says - 'Good Work!' - to the girl who got four GCSEs .... GODDAMMIT!!
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2 years
It’s pouring with rain, but I’m on my way to my PHD ceremony at Senate House, and last night I watched a Terrence Malick film, so all is good in the world.
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3 years
So I learned today that our local bookshop is reordering A Wild & Precious Life for the third time. How wild is that? #AWildAndPrecioisLife
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This is a beautiful place I escape to, to write uninterrupted. The past 2 years my visit was disrupted by Covid, and I’m due to go next week. But this year I am taking my 15 year old daughter with me, still recovering from post viral fatigue (7 months). She will swim and sleep.
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3 years
And then… she was Amazon Number One Bestselling Author in Cults and Demonism! #SinsOfMyFather
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3 years
Have been so lucky with the amazing reviews I've had but particularly by this one, , where Nicholson wrote, among one of the best accounts of #addiction she'd read - that my experience could help others. Isn't this why we write? #memoir #AddictionRecovery
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Sins of My Father by Lily Dunn review – surviving a cult

A daughter chronicles the reverberations of one man’s decision to abandon his family in pursuit of spiritual enlightenment

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Dr Lily Dunn
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6 years
Very excited to announce that we will be recording a conversation for @BBCRadio4 Listening Project between me and one of our original members of the St Mungo's creative writing group, about what writing and meeting each other has meant to both of us. Might get emotional...
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4 years
This is a big moment. There’s our precious baby!
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Lovely to see this anthology in the Poetry Pharmacy @Lilydunnwriter
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3 years
What a night. Congratulations ⁦ @mindandlanguage ⁩ and ⁦ @Words_by_Sophie ⁩ - what amazing books. What achievement! What fun!!!! #PublicationDay
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2 years
2 months since this baby was published. I had amazing review coverage - was so lucky - but the best bit has been hearing from readers about how it has helped them, and realising that my intention was met. Publishing family memoir is complex, but this has been good! #SinOfMyFather
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2 years
We got a puppy 🐶
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Dr Lily Dunn
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5 years
Reminded today of this lovely woman, @mindandlanguage who helped me turn my life around just over four years ago. Together we created @londonlitlab and our courses now sell out. We're also, right this moment, in the process of taking on two new writer/teachers. Love you, Zoe
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Dr Lily Dunn
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2 years
Excited to finally get my copy of ⁦ @Mslexia ⁩ despite the postal strike, and read my second piece of my series on #memoir and healing #writingcommunity
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4 years
Look at what just came knocking on my front door... the page proofs for our this Wild and Precious thing of beauty. Thank you @unbounders
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2 years
Today is the publication day of my paperback! And I have written a blog post to celebrate. It's about the difficultly of writing about others, and asks are memoirists bad people?... haha. I'd love to know what you think #memoir #writingcommunity
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The Aesthetic Memoir: How We Write About Others - Lily Dunn

I have learned a lot about memoir this week, from various conversations had, and books read, and certain angles not before thought about. This is no surprise as I seem to be immersed in the world of...

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Dr Lily Dunn
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3 years
In the Telegraph Magazine today, which is a little frightening. But thought I’d mention it #SinsOfMyFather
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2 years
I am slightly in love with this book
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⬇️⬇️⬇️❤️❤️🧡🧡🍊🥕🥂🎉🍾Publication Week!! #SinsOfMyFather #Memoirs #WritingCommunity
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I have some exciting publication news, some exciting publication news, some exciting publication news. I have some exciting publication news (she dances around her small garden).
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2 years
Today we three got together to talk memoir and journeys for ⁦ @womentalkplace ⁩ and it was truly inspiring. Love in Berlin, love for rock and thwarted spiritual quest. Fascinating! Such a pleasure to meet you ⁦⁦ @amy_may ⁩ and ⁦ @annamfleming ⁩
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Great to see my latest piece in ⁦ @Mslexia ⁩ about writing memoir and its power to heal. I have really enjoyed writing this column … watch this space for a new one coming soon. #memoir #amwriting
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@marinab52 @1paarhanden @NyackDanShaw @RonitPlank @LuciaOC_ @Janja_Lalich @TalkBeliefs @BrightonPsych @_indoctrination Please spread the word
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Dr Lily Dunn
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1 year
Kicking off my series of interviews with memoirists, is @NoreenMasud . She tells us she could write A Flat Place only by imagining she was a tiny fish with no name; & you can never predict what others might find painful in your #memoir #WritingCommunity
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The Aesthetic Memoir: Interview with Noreen Masud - Lily Dunn

In this series of interviews I will be talking to memoirists, both published and working towards publication, about their writing process, and how writing memoir has helped them better understand...

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Just found this photo of my beautiful mother and I can’t get over how beautiful she is, but also how sad. She’s looking at my dad. #SinsOfMyFather
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On a wild coastal walk on New Year's Day and I hear I made it into The Times roundup for books to look out for in 2022. What a good way to start the year... So proud of this little book of mine, making its way out there in the world #SinsOfMyFather
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