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Marianne Levy

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I write books & essays & reviews. Words in @theipaper @thetimes @independent etc my book Don't Forget To Scream out now @Phoenix_Bks Agent @felicityblunt

London

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@MarianneLevy

Marianne Levy

2 years

We need to talk about what it is really like to become a mother. So I’m delighted to say that my ordinary experience of ordinary motherhood has been given a 3.5k word extract in the magazine of today’s Sunday Times 😱 If you’d like to pre-order my book

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Marianne Levy

1 year

My four year old just caught me having a cry, so he sat me down, gave me a hug and said, ‘Would you like to watch Number Blocks?’

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10 months

I wouldn’t normally put a pic of me in a swimsuit on Twitter but this happened today. It was was extremely joyful and entirely unplanned

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Overheard on tube Tiny child: Are you coming with me? Woman with her: I’m always coming with you, until you don’t want me any more.

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6 years

My sister has been feeding a hedgehog and tonight her kids decided he could do with some company.

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1 year

My son has just come home holding the greatest piece of artwork in the history of all humankind

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4 years

saw this on Instagram and... am I doing reading wrong?

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7 years

if only we had a word for this phenomenon

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3 years

I’m not seeing a Celtic shield. I’m seeing a Celtic sanitary towel.

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1 year

His family was gutted by the Holocaust, his teenage son Eddie died of meningitis and in the first wave of Covid he spent 40 days on a ventilator. And yet @MichaelRosenYes is so very alive. I reviewed his book Getting Better for @theipaper

Getting Better by Michael Rosen is a quietly profound guide to surviving hardship

Part memoir, part self-help manual, Rosen's latest publication considers what it is to get better, 'what it means, and how we do it'

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Marianne Levy

2 years

Shop bought is all very well, but the decorations your kids make for you are the loveliest of all

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4 years

I’ve got Covid and this tweet is a blatant request for sympathy.

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Marianne Levy

3 years

Some day I will be sitting outside, late at night and far from home, with a glass of wine and a book. The air will be warm and there will be moths at the lamp and bats in the sky and in the distance I will hear a pack of children, giddy with freedom, shouting in the dark

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Marianne Levy

3 years

Just wait until they hear about taps

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4 years

I wrote something about my cat. I would very much like you to read it.

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Here is a — surely non exhaustive — list of every ailment that has ever afflicted my cat, Boots.

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Marianne Levy

1 year

serving suggestion IF YOU ARE INSANE

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4 years

oh yes also I saw this sign today 👀

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7 months

Not online yet but I need you to read my ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of @Nigella_Lawson ’s Amsterdam Christmas in today’s @theipaper because IT IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER WRITTEN

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6 years

I Have Angered The Women On The John Lewis Website

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Marianne Levy

6 years

Could absolutely be a still from Cunk

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3 years

‘choose’ is probably too strong a word right now

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4 years

Hihi. PEOPLE WHO HAVE GIVEN BIRTH! What's the one thing about giving birth that no one ever talks about? It's for a thing. #itsforathing

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Marianne Levy

5 years

Me: Ok you’ll like this joke. Why shouldn’t you let Elsa hold your balloon? Daughter: Because she doesn’t like balloons? Me: Remember Elsa’s big song. Her: Because she might freeze the balloon. Me: Because she’ll... Her: Freeze the balloon and then it will pop.

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6 years

New baby started screaming on the bus so the whole lower deck sang a lullaby until he went back to sleep JUST KIDDING EVERYONE LOATHED ME AND IT WAS AWFUL.

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Marianne Levy

4 years

weird how the inside of my sanitary pad is printed with a little heart, rather than the phrase 'let every drop be matched a thousandfold with the blood of mine enemies'

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Marianne Levy

8 years

A swimsuit designed by someone who once saw a woman, maybe, but actually didn't.

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Marianne Levy

6 years

Happy #WorldBookDay ! Worry about funding cuts & closure of libraries. Worry about a climate that makes survival all but impossible for many independent bookshops. Worry about the lack of space & funding for books in schools. But please, PLEASE, don't worry about the costumes.

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Marianne Levy

4 years

Anyone want to guess the year on the receipt that was inside?

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4 years

When you have kids marriage can get stale so it’s important to keep things romantic eg by leaving one another little notes

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1 year

Happy International Women’s Day!

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2 years

Our new cat 😻 Your name suggestions, please?

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3 years

Honestly, you have unprotected sex in 2013 and then it’s 2021 and you’re googling ‘where can I stroke a goat in or near Great Yarmouth’

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1 year

Last day of the Sylvanian Families shop and people are queuing down the street 🐰🐭🐱🐶🏡😭😭😭

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5 years

Me: I am thoughtful, dispassionate and not easily swayed. Also me: [on finding two wrapped sweets in with my contact lens order] This tremendous company shall have my loyalty until death.

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Marianne Levy

4 years

*sits bolt upright in bed* oh god the Christmas ads this year are going to be unbearable

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Marianne Levy

3 years

*deep breath* I wrote about BBC One’s new drama Ridley Road, and the difficulties of playing and casting Jewish characters, for @theipaper . Thanks @Baddiel for pointing out the importance of having the conversation. And do watch the show. It’s great.

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Ridley Road is a drama about Jewish people, so where are the Jewish actors?

BBC One’s major new drama revolves around the Jewish identity of its lead characters, says Marianne Levy

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Marianne Levy

6 years

A tiny wave hello from our new baby boy. After a day and a night in intensive care and another night in special care he's finally with us on the ward. Hope to come home soon. Thank you, wonderful wonderful NHS.

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3 years

Daughter’s Covid bubble has just popped. That’s it for this school year. No sports day, no celebrations, no proper goodbyes. Kids all weeping. I know it’s small, in the grand scheme, but for them it’s huge and I just feel dreadful for them all.

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4 years

I don’t

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What would Farage and Patel have said about Jewish refugees from the Nazis in the 1930s, I wonder?

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1 year

@LissaKEvans I semi-accidentally drank a bottle of wine on a full dose of motion sickness pills a couple of weeks ago and had the best night’s sleep in years. (I do see this is not a long, or even short term solution.)

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5 years

Thing is, obviously this is the very extreme end. But any time a bloke says in interview (and they say it a lot) ‘I could never do what my wife does’ that’s the socially acceptable version of this. And it drives me INSANE

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Marianne Levy

4 years

Do YOU wish you looked less good and want to pay MORE for your clothes? Try linen!

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Marianne Levy

2 years

I wrote about something that happened to me on holiday. It's very short, and it's called The Carousel. I would love you to read it.

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This is what I didn’t tell you.

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5 years

Twitter! I've got to name a bad male character. Anyone want to give me a - fairly unassuming - first name of someone you don't like? (No one famous or with a weird name.)

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3 years

What is the most bank holiday thing you are going to do today? I plan to tighten up the toilet seats

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6 years

I wrote about The Mothers. (Please, if you are under 16, don't read this.)

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8 years

This is necessary but I do not feel good about it.

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3 years

Patsy Kensit’s leg is MELTING someone do something

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1 year

😱 Mother’s Day is coming, so my publisher @Phoenix_Bks is giving away 3 copies of my book! Follow me and RT this to win, winners announced on Sunday 19th March 😱

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7 years

did a scary pumpkin

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4 years

I wrote a personal, angry piece about how lockdown has turned me into a surrendered wife. It’s in today’s @theipaper

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5 years

Had a row with my daughter earlier over whether someone had knocked at the door. I said the noise was just me clattering in kitchen. To prove it I opened the front door and shouted THERE’S NO ONE HERE right in the face of the small woman from next door who’d come to get a parcel.

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4 years

I wrote something, just now. I would love you to read it

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Marianne Levy

10 months

For those asking, the swimsuits are from Batoko. They are a small Uk company that recycles plastic waste into swimsuits. Do get on their mailing list for discounts and sample sales!

OFFICIAL BATOKO © | Recycled Plastic Swimwear | UK Label

WE'RE RUBBISH, LITERALLY. BATOKO is an environmentally conscious independent British swimwear brand shipping worldwide. All swimsuits are made from recycled plastic waste; keeping plastic out of...

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1 year

Lovely dress I found online, then noticed that the woman at the front is about to get thumped by the woman behind

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6 years

Two weeks ago today I had a baby. I wrote about it, here

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4 years

1997. Included in the bag was another receipt from, appropriately, Past Times.

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Marianne Levy

4 years

World Book Day is both brilliant and problematic. My piece for @theipaper With thanks to @moontrug @FletcherMoss @Catiewilkins @joecraiguk @laurenstjohn @WELBooks #KatherineRundell @MaryAliceEvans @PiersTorday & @NadiaShireen

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5 years

Don't often post writing advice but just dug this up and it remains the best structure help I've ever found.

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Beginnings - Setting a Story in Motion

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Marianne Levy

5 years

Was looking at old diamond rings and found one with an inscription that will stay with me forever.

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1 year

This, from the BBC’s website (thanks for drawing it to my attention @Izzymant )

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3 years

'It made me feel wretched, and it made me feel vindicated and I wish it had been longer.' My review of the funny and furious Jews Don't Count by @Baddiel in today's @theipaper

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Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel is funny and furious - and it made me feel wretched

The comedian lays bare on the page what British liberal Jews have long known and offers a small glimpse at how frightening it is to live this experience

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8 years

Watching Clangers with the subtitles on is a pleasing experience.

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7 years

It's a bit 'here's my vagina', isn't it?

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7 years

Deleted twitter from my phone & had an amazing afternoon's writing but then I found an aubergine that looked like a bum and now here we are

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2 years

Never wanted a backstory more

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3 years

You do right to congratulate me, ebay, for I am, indeed, the highest bidder.

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7 years

Put a pic of a lemon on Insta and no one likes it. Maybe twitter will. It's a good lemon.

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2 years

just roared FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! at my poor editor when she showed me a finished copy of my book over Zoom, and I suspect it is best I do not attempt to do one of those cute unboxing videos

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1 year

four seconds after I took this she bit me

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5 years

Hey, fun game! The Gringotts exhibition on the Harry Potter studio tour opens tomorrow. I’ve hidden the press shot among three anti Semitic cartoons published in Nazi Germany. See if you can spot it!!

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4 years

🎉When singing the washing your hands song today, you may insert my name. 🎉

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4 years

Me at 5.30am: I just want to go back to sleep. But I guess if I’m awake I could use the time to think out some work? My brain: Yay! ok let’s list every mistake you ever made starting in 1985 Me: WHAT My brain: OK 1983

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3 years

I have some exciting news

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4 years

there really is nothing quite like harvesting homegrown tomatoes

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1 year

wtf

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4 years

I wrote something, about the end of summer. I would love you to read it.

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Last Sunday afternoon, my friend and I cycled to Tate Modern. He’d been wanting to cheer me up, had noticed for a while now that a…

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3 years

My tiny son just said his first ever sentence. Incredibly proud and delighted to report that it was ‘More cheese’

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6 years

Me, trying stuff on in Cos.

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If you’re having a bad day, remember that in the 16th century Baltic Germans dressed like this.

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5 years

I am really good at Plot

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1 year

What was the best thing you saw at the zoo, children?

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7 years

Just about to print out my book ahead of its first major edit. Exciting! Here are some things I will definitely find.

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2 years

Back in 2020 the brilliant @francescamain approached me about writing a book. Completely delighted to say that 'Don't Forget To Scream' is out in July with @Phoenix_Bks . Here's the cover. #Unspokentruths

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6 years

Little message from my daughter

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7 years

Momentary guilt over raiding daughter's potty training choc buttons. Then remembered that I do my wee wees on the toilet like a big girl.

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8 months

It’s not a children’s book! Why I’m seriously concerned that The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse will be taught in our schools, for @theipaper

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Our children deserve better than Charlie Mackesy’s The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse

The book will be taught in schools - but please, for the love of literacy, give children something written with them in mind

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3 years

Here’s a thing. (I’ve had some wine.) Seven years ago I was on the post natal ward after a really really shitty birth and I read all your tweets about #Eurovision and they cheered me up NO END. I always think of that night, every year. 💞

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6 years

To the woman who just stopped me in M&S to tell me I really ought to do something about my crying baby and that it's just cruel isn't it, now there are two of us crying! So well done you!

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4 years

I saw this piece of tremendousness

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8 years

CBBC: We must save the universe from total destruction! CBeebies: This sandwich is too big for the box!

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3 years

Christmas last posting date: you’ve got ages you’ve got ages you’ve got ages you’ve got ages you’ve got ages you’ve got ages you’ve got ages yeah you’ve missed it

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3 years

I've chosen my thirty best children's books for Christmas for this weekend's @theipaper . From picturebooks through to YA, click through to read on... 🧵🧵🧵

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4 years

Thank you so much for all your good wishes. Boots says hello 🐾

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2 years

I just put the title of my new book into Amazon for the first time and it was such a special moment

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5 years

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Wise Miriam

5 years

Where's a nice place to go on a Friday evening in London that won't be too horribly busy?

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10 years

'What was my first Christmas like, Mummy?' 'Well, my darling, it was mainly crying at adverts.'

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4 years

Looking for a replacement Mog on eBay and it’s like Mog killed someone and this is the suspect’s ID parade

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2 years

One week until Don't Forget To Scream is OUT! I've been so lucky to work with the mighty @francescamain (The Last Act Of Love, This is Going To Hurt, The Miniaturist). So here's a🧵 on the INSIDE STORY of our editing process @Phoenix_Bks (WARNING contains baaad language)

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1 year

Just sent someone quite senior called Clare an empty email with subject line ‘email Clare’ How’s your day going

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5 years

if you’re looking for a special something for the contract killer in your life

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