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Sarra Manning

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It’s that time of the month again! My favourite June books for @RedMagDaily Featuring @HarrietEvans @lauraclarewood @CatheriNewman @kateyoungwrites @NicolaYoon and #francescasegal

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3 years

What are the odds that on the hottest day of the year so far somewhere in a tent in the middle of England, the Great British Bake Off contestants are trying to get their icing to stop running?

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This is the same kind of energy that I bring to... well, everything

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This is Lil Hobbs. He recently joined a water aerobics class. Likes the water. Not so sure about the aerobics. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday

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You don't expect a two bedroom flat next to a Chinese takeaway on Hornsey Road to have its own swimming pool, which just shows a lack of imagination on your part.

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4 years

Have reached that stage of lockdown where I'm seriously contemplating selling up and moving from London to a seaside town where I don't know anyone and no one knows me to live mortgage-free in my slightly imposing dream house.

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I love the way that Apple refers to a pair of £299.95 headphones as "a perfect stocking filler." No, that is your main present and you're done. Not even a Terry's chocolate orange for you!

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I am SHOOK that there are still publishing folk that don't know about this game-changing hack. If you have to read a PDF on your Kindle and you'd prefer it not to be a teeny tiny fonted frustrating mess, use CONVERT as your subject when you email it to your kindle.

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2 months

Has anyone else had a fairly mild cold but been left with a cough that just won’t quit? I feel like I need to go to a sanatorium in the Tyrollean alps to convalesce.

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5 years

People who are too old to be Millennials! For fun, but also to help me novel, something from your teens that younger people wouldn't even believe. I'll go first: Cheap calls after 6pm on the landline (no mobiles, innit.)

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Can’t believe that I need to post this but people will not be told.

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6 years

Business idea: Sewing alterations company that exists only to insert pockets into dresses that don't have any. I'm going to call it, "Thank You, It Has Pockets."

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4 years

Fake Or Fortune? 🙄

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I thought that you’d want to know that my new dress has pockets.

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7 months

Have you ever bought another copy of a book that you already own because you can't actually find it even though you've torn your place to shreds looking for it? #askingforafriend

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6 years

Even when I was on Just 17, I don't think we'd have considered this newsworthy. (And I once wrote a real life piece about two girls who got lost in Milton Keynes Bowl car park after a Bon Jovi gig.)

Woman left in tears after being sent wrong dress - 'ruining' New Year's Eve

Brittany Colley received the wrong item from PrettyLittleThing as she was about to get ready for a New Year's Eve party

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5 years

If you’re not doing a big towel wash today, what are you even doing with your life?

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3 years

Don’t. Tag. Authors. In. Reviews. If. You. Didn’t. Like. The. Book. How would you feel if someone knocked on your front door just to tell you that you’re shit?

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@dog_rates The heart wants what the heart wants...

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Scroll to pic 10 for someone who is FUMING that their house is up for sale.

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6 years

Nobody tells you that when you get older you'll spend whole hours sitting and gazing gormlessly into space while you try to summon the energy to get up.

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4 years

I’ve had a little cry about spending Christmas on my own, but I realise many people will be having a much, harder sadder time time than me. So, now I’ve got over myself, am having a medicinal Baileys and ice, watching #StrictlyComeDancing Bring on the bloody vaccine!

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2 years

B is for Boris, ambushed by cake.

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@dog_rates @Trupanion The late, great Miss Betsy

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1 year

*GIVEAWAY* To mark the 40th anniversary of Nora Ephron's beloved Heartburn, @ViragoBooks are releasing this beautiful edition on March 9th, with new foreword from Stanley Tucci. I have THREE copies to giveaway! Just RT and follow to enter. UK only. Closes midday Monday 13th Feb

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7 months

Just what we need, when we need it the most! The 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride & Prejudice (AKA the one true adaptation, I will accept no substitutes,) is being repeated on BBC4, starting tonight at 10.15pm.

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5 years

I’m starting to get the “lead fiction” proofs in for 2020. It would be so refreshing, such a gear change, if some of them weren’t debuts but amazing new novels from mid list writers.

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5 years

Actually, let me stop you right there. September 1st is NOT the first day of autumn. It’s September 23rd, so put that apple crumble down right now.

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4 years

ANNOUNCEMENT! I am so thrilled to reveal the cover to RESCUE ME, the purest romcom I ever did write. It's all about love and the joy of owning a dog. Out in hardback and ebook on January 21st (pb in summer) and it's available to preorder now!

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4 years

Just checking that everyone one will know what I mean by an "insurance wee?"

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“Y’know it’s the summer hols, so I’m just going to kick back with a couple of thrillers, Eleanor Oliphant, which I still haven’t read and my favourite Jilly Cooper,” said not one of these ‘leading writers.’ I think they’re lying.

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4 months

This is so f-ing bizarre. I've lived on my own pretty much all my adult life and I love it! Anyone who knows me would say I'm fairly social but I prefer my own company. Also my bed smells absolutely lovely. For those at the back, alone and lonely are not the same.

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People who live alone, on their own fascinate me. I often wonder how it feels like cooking for just one, giving human names to your music playlists and finding fallback friends online who fill in the crevices of loneliness with empty or deep talks. Sleeping alternatively on

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4 years

Some good news - on BBC iplayer from Monday! “Downton for kids': BBC brings forward Malory Towers adaptation

'Downton for kids': BBC brings forward Malory Towers adaptation

Enid Blyton’s girls’ boarding school adventure provides tales of hope in times of crisis

www.theguardian.com

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8 years

One Combover The Cuckoo's Nest. #DonaldTrumpTheMovie

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3 years

My Ocado Christmas order can’t be edited after 11.30 tonight and, quite frankly, not even the Treaty Of Versailles was subject to this kind of scrutiny and revision. Endless revisions.

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28 years ago (Christ, I’m old,) I officially started at Just Seventeen as Staff Writer on a salary of £15,800. I was thrilled and had no idea of the way this job would change my life. (Also, I very much recommend starting a new job the week before Christmas!)

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4 years

You know what I could fancy? A new novel from Sarah Waters, that’s what.

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1 year

I can't work out what is going on here but I'm sure it's nothing good.

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2 years

***GIVEAWAY*** I have FIVE copies of A Lady’s Guide To Fortune Hunting by Sophie Irwin from @HarperCollinsUK . A sparky Regency romance, which harks back to Heyer and will fill the Bridgerton hole in your life. RT and FOLLOW to enter. UK only. Closes 6pm, 2/5/2022

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6 years

Look, I know authors who post their triumphant Amazon sales rankings are tiresome but in fifteen years and about thirty odd novels, this has never happened to me before. Becky Sharp is an Amazon bestseller three times over! So, please, allow me to be tiresome.

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4 years

This is one of the most incredible houses I've ever seen up for sale. Swooning. (And also, I am giddy with delight that estate agents are back at work, but only if they are safe and want to be, and listing on RightMove again.)

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3 years

I. Love. Him.

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4 years

I'm always banging on about Diary Of A Provincial Lady and if you've never read it, now is absolutely the right time:

I wish more people would read ... The Diary of a Provincial Lady by EM Delafield

The self-effacing diarist anxiously trying to keep up appearances in the Great Depression provides consoling comedy in trying times

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

I'm always pleased with myself for knowing the difference between stationary and stationery because of the e for envelopes. With skills like this, you'd definitely want me on your team in an apocalypse.

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4 years

@NotRollergirl Schadenfrock.

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2 years

In my WIP, I've invented a restaurant called Picky Bits which serves what can best be described as Modern British tapas. Welsh rarebit toast triangles, Scotch quails eggs, mini Yorkshire puddings with a gravy dipping sauce. I think the idea has legs.

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1 year

It blows my Gen X mind that song lyrics are just THERE as the track plays on my device. In my day, you just had to hope that the lyrics might be in Smash Hits if you were lucky. Sometimes albums didn’t even come with a lyric sheet!

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3 years

I haven’t partied as much in my entire life, as the Downing Street staff partied during a freaking pandemic.

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6 years

I'm 27000 words into Anna Karenina and Anna herself has only just showed up. I can't believe any of my past or current editors would let any of their writers get away with such a shocking lack of pacing.

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2 years

I have news!

Hodder & Stoughton snaps up another two from Manning

Hodder & Stoughton has bought two new novels from author and Red literary editor Sarra Manning.

www.thebookseller.com

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1 year

How can it be that it’s TWENTY years today that Guitar Girl, my debut novel, was published? Lots of thrills and bumps in the road, but some thirty books later (and no bestsellers!) I still can’t believe that I’m an actual novelist. Here’s to the next twenty years!

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3 years

This is your six month reminder that if you’re emailing PDF/word documents etc to your Kindle, put CONVERT in the subject heading and the text is automatically formatted for ease of reading. No more microscopic type!

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4 years

The only bit of housework I actively enjoy is when you press the button on your vacuum cleaner and the electrical cord goes shooting up into its innards.

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5 years

Doing you an absolute solid - ALL five books in The Cazalet Chronicles are £1.09 today. It will be the best £5.45 you've ever spent. A country house, a huge family of misfits, the devastation of WW2, love, loss, longing - this wonderful series has it all.

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2 years

***GIVEAWAY*** I adored The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn. Fans of Cazalet Chronicles/Camomile Lawn, you'll love it too. Out in June but @VikingBooksUK & @FigTree43271680 have given me their last two precious proofs. Just follow and RT to enter. UK only. Closes 6pm, 25/4/22

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3 years

It always makes me laugh* when people describe my genre of books, or my actual books, as throwaway or easy. I'm at the tail end of my page proofs and I have agonised over and debated every single word. Every single one. Easy is actually very hard. (*drop a lot of f-bombs.)

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2 years

Whether you’re a monarchist or not, for most of us born after she was crowned, the Queen has been the one constant in an ever changing world. It will feel like a rip in the fabric of society. Also, imagine starting your reign with Winston Churchill and it ending with Liz Truss…

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4 years

My great grandparents on both sides of the family were “illegal immigrants” who came to Britain by boat to escape religious persecution. You won’t find them on any passenger manifests. You won’t find any tales of them rising from such ignoble beginnings to great status and wealth

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Sustaining this level of helpless rage for four days is brexhausting.

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3 years

*GIVEAWAY* To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Marian Keyes’s iconic Rachel’s Holiday and the end of the blog tour, I have 5 copies of the gorgeous anniversary edition up for grabs. It’s one of my most favourite books ever! RT and follow to enter. UK only Closes 15/12/21

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✨COVER REVEAL✨ My new novel, LONDON, WITH LOVE, publishes on 5/5/2022. Set in the 80's, 90's and 00's, it's about two starcrossed lovers and the London Underground network. You can preorder it now, if you feel inclined. (I hope you do!) #LondonWithLove

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I’ve just been tagged in a one star review of one of my novels on IG. It’s in French so the sting is slightly moins (but I more than got the gist.) Do not do this. It’s a dick move. Like ringing on someone’s doorbell just to tell them they suck. Vous suckez!

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5 years

What a great imitative from @simonschusterUK More like this please, publishers.

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6 years

I'm currently between books and technically out of contract and haven't written a word of fiction for months (in my defence, I have been editing. A lot.) I feel scratchy and all wrong. So today I wrote the two most exciting words in the English language: Chapter One.

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1 year

Guys, please stop being so previous. We’re currently beginning The Spring of Deception.

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I will NEVER stop banging on about how brilliant Station Eleven is, even though a dystopian novel about a post-pandemic world and a travelling troupe of Shakespearean players doesn't tick any of my boxes. But my God, it is so brilliant and 99p for Kindle!

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4 years

An absolute Proustian rush as I describe the stodgy spag bol and the acidic wine that stripped away the surface of your tastebuds at the late, great Stockpot. #amwriting

Goodbye to the Stockpot – the last great Soho cheap eatery

This ‘utterly, ineffably London’ restaurant, purveyors of moundfuls of broccoli cheese and bargain set meals, was like something out of a Muriel Spark novel. Now it’s gone, victim of a mix of...

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Chick lit lovers of the world unite and take over! Something I wrote for Red Online about how amazing this much maligned genre is.

Have you ever felt embarrassed to read chick lit? It's time you read this

It’s time to reclaim the c-word!

www.redonline.co.uk

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6 years

"Guys! I've got an estate agent coming round to take photos. Can we have a bit of a declutter?"

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1 year

@LissaKEvans Poor Ottillie - destined to a life of having their name spelled wrong. Also, makes me want to start singing A Lonely Goatherd.

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I clicked on this house because of the swimming pool and stayed for the kitchen ceiling, the clashing carpets and wallpaper and a thousand other delights. Every picture is a gift!

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I have news! Exciting news! I’ve only gone and written another novel. My original blurb for Rescue Me was: Margot is desperate for love. Will’s afraid to love. And Blossom loves everyone... but squirrels. It’s a…

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8 years

We are so sick and tired of having to say this stuff over and over again but we'll keep on saying it. #IAmAFeminist

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6 years

Started writing new book today. A blank page staring back at me. Taunting me. That feeling that maybe I've forgotten how to do this. Then I type one word. Then another. And another. I have a sentence. Then a paragraph. Until that blank page is full up and typing becomes writing.

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4 years

So, I’m writing a book that starts in 1986, and for all the no-internet, no-mobiles, no-Covid difference what really shocks me is that we all smoked and we smoked everywhere. On buses, on the tube, in clubs, in restaurants. Now seems so disgusting and repellant.

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3 years

Mike from Married At First Sight Australia is a terrible, terrible human being. A gaslighting, manipulating psychopath. Absolutely facilitated by the “experts.”

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2 years

From the delightful wit behind the @Sotherans account, this is out in October and (sorry to mention the c-word) the perfect Christmas present for anyone who loves books, bookshops and the backbone of the publishing industry, booksellers.

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Me: I'd be so slim if I lived in a hot country as I just don't fancy eating proper meals. Also me: It's too hot to eat a proper meal so I'll just have ice-cream for breakfast, elevenses, lunch, tea, dinner, supper, snacks...

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6 years

You must allow me to tell you that the BBC adaptation of Pride & Prejudice (the one true adaptation) is currently on iPlayer and the forecast for tomorrow is heavy rain. 😉

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I knew this was going to happen, didn't expect it before publication though, but have just had Vanity Fair explained to me by a man who "read it once years ago" even though I've read it three times and have LITERALLY written a book about it. I was far from amused.

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I just finished watching season three of Slow Horses and now all I really want to watch is… season four of Slow Horses.

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4 years

On reflection, I went too soon and yes, I am now regretting switching to the summer weight duvet last week. I should have known better.

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5 years

If you buy a book as a present for someone, it’s accepted, even mandatory, to read it (very carefully) yourself before you wrap it? Right? Right?

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3 years

I feel like nectarines are much yummier than peaches but peaches have a better publicist. 🍑🤔

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5 years

Has anyone in publishing done any work this afternoon or have we all just been discussing THAT New Yorker article in our DMs?

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With Frankfurt Book Fair looming, it's quite a punishing time if you're wondering whether you'll ever be published or ever be published AGAIN.

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6 years

Thank you so much for all your tweets and messages about my beloved Miss Betsy. Please forgive me if I don’t reply to them all - I’m quite overwhelmed at the moment. The house and my heart feels very empty today. xxx

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If there's even an outside chance that you won't be in the country to vote on July 4th, then you can apply for a postal vote here:

Apply for a postal vote

Apply for a postal vote to take part in the General Election on 4 July 2024. You’ll need to apply by 5pm on 19 June 2024 and must be registered to vote.

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If you're not doing a towel wash today what are you even doing with your life? 🤷‍♀️

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3 years

Watching last night’s programme about the menopause and I’m terrified but also furious. Can you imagine that there’d be a similar lack of research, funding, treatment if the menopause happened to men? I’ll answer that for you - it’s a big, fat NO.

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I realise, too late, it's not a good idea to do a 'find and replace all' to change the name of a character called Tom to Tim. I now have to go through and correct all the timorrows, bottims, timatoes, even a stimping and an epitime.

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@holly_bourneYA Bols advocaat > snowballs. Got drunk at a Barmitzvah at a very young age. Mum had my puking head stuck out of the car window as we drove home. "Well, she's learnt her lesson. She'll never drink again." Narrator: She hadn't learned her lesson.

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One of my best lockdown ideas was the Cakebox. Every time I bake or buy baked goods, I save a few slices, wrap them in greaseproof paper and put them in a Tupperware box in the freezer. Now, I'm only ever a couple of hours away from a defrosted cake surprise.

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6 months

I’ve reached that stage of writing a novel where I simply must clean out the fridge vegetable drawer.

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1 year

This meme gets a lot of heavy use from me at this time of year…

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5 years

I don’t know what I’ve done to deserve this but these HORRIFIC shoes are following me all around the Internet.

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4 years

Thinking of doing a little #bookconcierge thing tomorrow arvo to bring cheer and give reading recs to people on lockdown/self-isolation. You'd tweet me a book you really loved (using #bookconcierge ) and I would suggest another book you might love too. Would anyone be up for that?

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4 years

Does anyone else do ten minutes of (quite lacklustre) housework then reward themselves with a half hour sit down? Oh, just me, then.

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4 years

Doing my page proofs for RESCUE ME and realise I’ve committed a hate crime against my heroine by putting her in a dress with cap sleeves. What was I thinking? Have amended to a three quarter length sleeve and all is right with the world.(Also, her dress has pockets.)

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Keep our heads down, keep on being supportive of other writers and keep on writing the best books that we're capable of writing. And remember, as someone once told me, publishing is what happens in between writing books.

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8 years

Thank you @edballs for being the most cheering, bonkers-for-the-right-reason thing about 2016.

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4 years

A "fact-checking" org retweeting an opinion piece full of incorrect and unsubstantiated assumptions. I wrote for J17 for ten years and belonged to Teen Mag Advisory Panel. We empowered, educated and informed our readers about consent, contraception, STIs and so much else.

Full Fact

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Bad information isn't new— @RachaelKrishna explores the journey of harmful advice for young women from magazines to social media:

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