An awful photo (taken from a stepladder, with a stomach-churning fear of heights), but somehow this lone rose is still going at the end of November and miraculously survived Storm Bert where even a fence panel didn’t 💫🌸.

Sending love. x

Having loved The Snow Child, I’d preordered a copy of this, but am delighted to receive a proof a few months ahead of its arrival - thank you so much @tinderpress.bsky.social - this is a real treat 💙🐻🪵. (And can keep the preorder to give to a friend who’d also enjoyed Eowyn’s previous novel :)

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I’ve just posted about Laurie Colwin’s HAPPY ALL THE TIME over in Instagram (in a way that won’t easily be condensed into 180 characters): www.instagram.com/p/DChAXuFKJv...

Thank you to @wnbooks.bsky.social for this gorgeous edition. 💙📚

Home from the bookshop with Nell (less visible, Tessa Hadley’s The Party and a book about writing called Swallowed by a Whale). 💙📚

This is gorgeous. I fell in love with it fairly late on when something in the dynamic between the dog and narrator shifts and really comes to life. So many wise observations on grief, writing, reading, and the bond between animals and humans. One I’d like to reread.

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Listening to Western Lane by Chetna Maroo today brought an end to a curiously bookless few weeks. Wonderful characters and I love novels with an intense amount of detail around someone learning or doing a particular thing - in this case playing squash.