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@ellamharold

27 days

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5 months

Turns out heaven IS a place on earth, and it’s Oslo’s public library

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4 years

The rest of the world shutting its borders to the plague-infested UK on the shortest day of the year eleven days before we flop off the crumbling Brexit cliff is truly the poetic end to this bin fire of a year that this shambolic government deserves. You couldn’t make it up.

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Shelves up. Books out. Absolutely thrilled.

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this morning on the tube, I kid you not, a man tapped me on the shoulder to inform me my book was upside down @elizabday

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5 years

I am, I think, happier than I’ve ever been about anything to say that @BloomsburyBooks are keeping me on permanently. This job is *the dream* and I adore working here. Say hello to the new Campaigns Assistant!

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4 years

Exactly two years ago tomorrow was my first day at @BloomsburyBooks 📚 Today, I’m over the moon to say I’ve been promoted to Marketing Executive! Here’s to brilliant books and dropping out of law school 🥂

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3 years

Very exciting news: I’ll be joining the fantastic campaigns team at Penguin General later this month! 🐧 …which means that today is my last day at Bloomsbury. 2.5 years of the most brilliant colleagues, books and authors - feeling very lucky and proud to have been a part of it

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5 years

can’t believe the #TheTestaments marketing team managed to get parliament suspended to coincide with launch day! What a great way to bring Gilead to the real world!

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2 years

✨ Plot twist ✨ In mid-July I’ll be moving to @FigTreePenguin as editorial assistant! It’s a dream come true - not just because I’ll be working with the very best writers, books and editor around, but also because I get to stay at Penguin General. I feel very lucky.

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4 years

A small clear-out, otherwise known as presents for the neighbours!

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5 years

If you want to know what working in publishing is like, last night I dreamt that I didn’t have time to go home to sleep so instead I made myself a bed on the office floor... out of tote bags

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3 years

🔈 if you’re a bookstagrammer hoping to be contacted by publishers about proofs, pleeeeease add your location (country) and email address to your Instagram bio! I can’t stress how much difference this makes when looking for potential early readers!

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4 years

Me: I guess it would be nice to support bookshops and treat myself, but I’ll only get paperbacks and I won’t get carried away Also me:

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7 months

Some of you have never read Best Friends by Jacqueline Wilson and it shows

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5 years

boyfriend and I sat down to dinner in a restaurant and whispered anxiously about whether we could really afford it. (We couldn’t). When we went to pay, it turned out that the couple next to us had covered our bill. I don’t know who you are but THANK YOU.

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3 years

@rchlcrns Is Gina Coladangelo … a teenage girl?

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1 year

Last week, after listening to me blathering on about my day, a very wise colleague said, "you have the best job in the whole company, don't you" He was right! I'm so so happy to have been promoted to Assistant Editor @FigTreePenguin . Best job in the world just got even better.

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3 years

I took this photo from my desk!

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5 months

Hi! Hope this finds you well. Just wondered whether you’d had a chance to look at my email below? So sorry to nudge - it would be great if you could get back to me on it in the next few days. Do let me know if that’s impossible. Have a great evening! All best,

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3 years

Having a big clear-out in (very) eager anticipation of eventually moving out: I’m leaving this in the park by our flat for the day

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3 years

Trying to find a short term let in London and

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2 years

Baby’s first print ad 🥰

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3 years

Working from a very peaceful train this eve - it’s reminded me of the ridiculous guy I knew at Oxford who, bored of the library, simply booked himself a series of return journeys to Inverness and did his finals revision from the train instead

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2 years

If anyone needs me this month I will be sitting in front of this tree, gazing lovingly at it 🤩

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2 years

Golden hour shadows & fleurs de pré 🥰

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4 years

‘gifted’, as in, a gift from me to me

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4 years

I’m so excited and proud to have been shortlisted for a @publicitycircle award! And so pleased to see my talented and hardworking colleagues @Ros_Ellis @emiliechambs @PhilippaCotton @beatricemay on the shortlist too 🌟 🌟 🌟

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6 years

guess who has just accepted a 3 month internship at Bloomsbury?!

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4 years

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4 years

Have some more snow photos! I’m giddy with snow-related euphoria! Everything’s so pretty!

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4 years

It is really, really hard to grapple with the ideas of publishers having not one but two billion dollars to spend on themselves when so many of their staff struggle consistently to make ends meet.

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2 years

This is what summer hours are for, right?

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6 years

why why why do MPs not have to pass professional standards exams before they get to be in charge of stuff?!!

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2 years

LOOK at the beautiful embroidery that my talented friend Polly did for me! She’s not on Twitter but she IS taking commissions for fun projects like this - let me know if you’d like to be put in touch

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@ellamharold

6 months

Moved to north London ☺️☺️☺️

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5 years

I’m in @ToppingsEdin and I’m in love. There are high ceilings and beautiful windows and fresh coffee and all the books. I don’t need anything else. I live here now.

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@ellamharold

4 years

GOOD MORNING

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@ellamharold

3 years

One bumpy day later, we’re in and unpacked. Feeling relieved and ecstatic to be living on a *quiet* street after the last year living on a building site, and even more delighted to have found a landlord who lets us hang frames!

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@ellamharold

1 year

I'm sending out a few bundles of our irresistible, stylish and divinely well-written Julie Otsuka paperbacks: two reissues, plus THE SWIMMERS in paperback for the first time. Writers and reviewers, if you're keen to discover these masterful novels, please make yourselves known!

Fig Tree

@FigTreePenguin

1 year

Beautiful new paperbacks for winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction JULIE OTSUKA, publishing on 13/07

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@ellamharold

3 years

Twitter doesn’t crop photos any more, so here are some of my favourites from recent springy London walks 🌸

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3 years

things you don’t get at home: a 5pm pilgrimage to the coffee (hot chocolate) machine, greeted by views like this 🐧 😍

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4 years

I’ve had the loveliest week of annual leave: fresh air, beautiful blossoms, lots of sleep, browsing in actual shops, time to read six books, pastries made by god herself 😌

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@ellamharold

7 months

@nthnashma bad news for Tracy Beaker

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@ellamharold

1 year

This is needle-in-a-haystack level of unlikely but I’ve lost my favourite necklace (which I’ve literally worn every day for a decade). I’m bereft. It was somewhere between @KingsDLLC and @NetworkRailCHX and it looks like this. Please rt!

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3 years

every time you pick which tote bag to take to the supermarket it’s like ‘hmmm what *exactly* about my personality do I want to communicate today’

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3 years

Merrily skipping off to an author lunch in central London - the first in over eighteen months! This is the publishing career I signed up for, baby!

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5 years

little perks of an empty town: I saw a BADGER

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@ellamharold

5 years

I, too, would like to resign from British society This is devastating and cruel. Erasmus *only* did good things, and there are *no* positive outcomes to scrapping it. Not one.

UK House of Commons

@HouseofCommons

5 years

MPs have voted against New Clause 10 being read a second time, by 344 votes to 254. This new clause would have required the Government to seek to negotiate continuing full membership of the EU’s Erasmus+ education and youth programme.

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3 years

We just arrived to move into our new place and the keys don’t work! The estate agent doesn’t have a spare! I’m sitting outside on the street with all of our furniture while we try to find a locksmith who works bank holidays! Why am I living in a Louise Rennison novel!!

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@ellamharold

3 years

Shiny, exclusive limited edition proofs of The Leviathan have landed 😍 @rosieandrews22 @BloomsburyRaven #TheLeviathanBook #SheIsAwake

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5 years

psa for south London dwellers: the West Norwood library and picturehouse (what a combination!) is DELIGHTFUL. Natural light, lots of space, affordable food, accessible screenings, peaceful and quiet. I’m going to spend every weekend here.

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5 months

It sounds almost too good to be true - and it IS - but there I was reading the (magnificent) new Liz Strout novel on a boat in a fjord and I looked up to see a WHALE swimming alongside us. A whale!!

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5 years

Looooook at these sprayed edges! 😍😍 I am even more in love with #TheDutchHouse than I was already

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4 years

Happy Valentine’s Day to these cinnamon buns I got up at 8 to bake - an act of love (my love for cinnamon)

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2 years

I woke up at 5, watched sunrise from bed, and drifted back to sleep. I love this flat.

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3 years

beautiful proof, where are you

Faber Books

@FaberBooks

3 years

👀 #BWWAY

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3 years

Can’t believe Picador have dropped Hanya Yanighara AND Julia Armfield proofs in the same few weeks and we’re all expected to quietly cope with this?!

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2 years

Morning Eurostar from London/mid-morning coffee and pastries in a sunny square in Lille/3 hours whizzing through valleys and vineyards with snow-capped Alps in the distance/in Lyon in time for late afternoon apero in the sun (I love trains! I love mainland Europe!)

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2 months

Just in: proofs of #TheEights , an exquisite novel about the power of friendship in turbulent times. It's set in Oxford in 1920, when women were admitted as full students for the first time; when misogyny was rife, influenza was a threat, and the ghosts of Great War lingered.

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5 years

Just finished #Hamnet and it was almost too good to be true - what an absolute dazzling treat of a novel ⭐️

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1 year

Too terrifying for words.

Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests

A collapse would bring catastrophic climate impacts but scientists disagree over the new analysis

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

Pretty much two years to the day since anywhere properly felt like ‘home’ - we’re in. Hello Forest Hill.

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4 years

@KatieVEBrown Right! And hybrid models of 2/3 days in the office/at home are the worst of both worlds imo: now you need to be able to afford to live somewhere with enough space to work in comfortably, which is also close enough to the office to travel in regularly

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5 years

I got a roll of film developed for the first time in months and I am, frankly, in love

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3 years

Very glad I at least got seven weeks in these gorgeous offices before the return of enforced wfh! Here’s hoping it’s only til January this time…

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5 years

imagine choosing to fly between Edinburgh and London when this is the view from the train?!

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2 years

hello, this is insane

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1 year

Everyone's got a renting horror story, and I couldn't be more THRILLED that we are publishing Róisín Lanigan's. Her fantastic debut - complete with unchic landlord furniture and the most perceptive depiction of an estate agent you can imagine - is so relatable, and SO DAMN GOOD.

The Bookseller

@thebookseller

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. @FigTreePenguin has signed I Want To Go Home But I’m Already There, @rosielanners ' "chilling" début inspired by rental horror stories. Read here:

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2 years

Early summer on expired film 🥰

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4 years

Very much enjoying the @Waterstones @FaberBooks Normal People event, especially because I get to pretend I’m actually on zoom with Connell, Marianne and Sally Rooney herself

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2 years

Over and out, marketing - I am donning my editorial hat from Monday! Some highlights from the most brilliant ten months with the truly fantastic Penguin General comms team - I’ve loved every minute.

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2 years

Hello, perfect stack of summer holiday paperbacks! Out of office is on 😎

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3 years

“Of course young people can afford a home - just move to 1993”

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5 years

Applications are OPEN... go go go! Being an intern at Bloomsbury was the best thing I ever did for my career and I can’t recommend it enough

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@ellamharold

3 years

Echoing publishing Twitter today: the snarky tweets about publicists are the worst, and a very unfair representation of people who *have to send emails because it is their job*, often under strict instruction not to stop until they’ve had an answer

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@ellamharold

4 years

Fab post. Now that publishers are also expecting junior staff to live somewhere with the space and conditions to work from home productively, despite knowing how little they pay us and how expensive London rent is, these conversations are more important than ever.

my work friends call me an #influencer

@pubinterns

4 years

Here it is! The #BookJobTransparency post. Thanks to @thatpubblogger for your words, and shout-out to @hamzajahanzeb , @AkiSchilz , @neevkm and @Louiestowell . And to all of you, always.

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We moved into this flat in August and had a giggle at the blatant lie on the estate agent description: there was a 'cheeky view' of the shard from the kitchen. But! Three months later, the leaves have all fallen off the trees, and I get to stare at the shard while I wash up!

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@ellamharold

2 years

signed off an email with a chirpy ‘have a great weekend!’ at 5.22pm on a TUESDAY, how is your week going

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@ellamharold

5 years

this is the best thing I’ve seen in a while

Loretta Milan

@lorettamilan

5 years

Amazing literature Tube map replaces stations with titles of #books set in the area. How many have you read?

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@ellamharold

4 years

Looking for the first step in your publishing career? There’s a Publicity Assistant vacancy at Bloomsbury! 📚✨ Come join our wonderful M&P team. Details and salary in the job ad 👇go go go!

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@ellamharold

1 year

Really delighted about this, my first acquisition for Fig Tree! Amanda Peters's debut #TheBerryPickers is a wonder of a novel: gorgeously written, with characters you'll root for, filled with regret for how things should have been, and propelled by a powerful sense of hope 🫐

The Bookseller

@thebookseller

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. @FigTreePenguin has acquired The Berry Pickers, the “exquisitely moving” debut novel by Indigenous Canadian writer Amanda Peters.

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PROOFS ARE IN of the most fantastic, most achingly relatable debut of 2024. Roxy Dunn's debut is a coming-of-age novel like no other, with an ending you'll never forget. #AsYoungAsThis by @RoxanaDunn , publishing with @FigTreePenguin in April. I'm so excited. 🧡💙🧡💙🧡

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3 years

Today it’s exactly three years since I quit law. It’s the best thing I ever did. I’m so glad I’m not a solicitor.

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3 years

A lunchtime talk and - gulp - a hug from Ali Smith herself. I may never recover. ( #CompanionPiece might just be her best yet. Out 7 April)

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6 months

First time in Paris since 2019. Cycle lanes and fifteen-minute city philosophies have transformed it from very nice to unimaginably lovely. Just divine - apocalyptic April heatwave aside.

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3 years

no Sunday night blues up here (note to self: this is not ‘just’ a stopover between Edinburgh and the north coast!)

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3 years

Drove for like 90 minute out of London and

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2 years

The loveliest evening celebrating @Elif_Safak and #TheIslandOfMissingTrees at the @WomensPrize party. Our winner!

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4 years

The most beautiful proof I’ve ever worked on is here! So so excited for everyone to fall in love with mein Lieblingsbuch this summer #OkapiDreams

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Delighted to be publishing BLANK CANVAS, a sharp, sensuous debut novel by blisteringly talented 21-year-old Grace Murray, in Spring 2026. Grace is an extraordinary observer of people, and her novel - about art, love, truth and redemption - is a triumph.

Fig Tree signs debut from ‘outstanding voice’ Grace Murray

Fig Tree has signed Blank Canvas, the debut novel by “blisteringly talented writer” Grace Murray.

www.thebookseller.com

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@ellamharold

6 years

Today I’m reading a proof copy of Invisible Women by @CCriadoPerez . It’s literally the bible of all the statistics you’ve ever needed when you’re trying to convince someone that the world is, in fact, skewed against women.

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It’s my one year anniversary of working at @BloomsburyBooks ! If you’d told intern me a year ago she’d still be here now, she’d have thought it was an April Fools - especially if you’d thrown in the global pandemic thing. Anyway here’s to fab colleagues, authors and books 🥰

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5 years

if you email me and it starts with ‘Dear Sirs’, I don’t have to reply, sorry I don’t make the rules

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@ellamharold

3 years

It’s been a *very cool* first few weeks at Penguin General, but a Booker Prize party in Soho to cheer on the fantastic Nadifa Mohammed was the absolute icing on the cake!

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@ellamharold

4 years

A few days ago a family friend who volunteers at a vaccination clinic told us loads of people hadn’t been showing us for appointments and they often had spare jabs at the end of the day. We said we’d love to be on a standby. And then today we got the call! #astrazenecavaccine

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3 years

Finally got that sub 2 hr half marathon!! ☺️😰

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@ellamharold

3 years

Oh-so-exciting proof just dropped 🦩 #theodyssey by Lara Williams - the author who brought the riotous, empowering Supper Club into your life - is out in April 2022

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4 years

either this is a verrrry clever marketing campaign for, like, gossip girl the novel, or things are about to get interesting ☕️

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2 years

@Louiestowell as a place to live it gets better the further out you go - zone 3/4 is the dream and there is literally nothing appealing about living in zone 1

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