In Absentia

I’m going to be absent for a brief while from Charlotte’s Web. Yet another school holiday, some paid freelance work, an impending maternal visit and the screams of pain from my unattended manuscript mean that I won’t be blogging for a bit. While I’m gone, you could feast your eyes upon my son’s ingenuity. Or [...]

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G is for Girlhood

Being a girl was about aching for something that was always just out of reach. I existed in a state of longing for something indefinable, of permanent languid dissatisfaction. I was always stretching out, grabbing, then discarding what I had touched. I wanted the next best thing, not the thing I had. Girlhood was about [...]

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