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Wise Women: myths and stories of midlife and beyond
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'Ask me anything' about writing
Video recording
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Long, Delirious, Burning and Blue
The rebirth of a novel
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Friendship, creativity and the meaning of life
Friendship’s a funny thing. I have to admit that, throughout my adult life, I’ve always imagined I don’t do it properly. Happiness, we’re told by this…
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Juvenilia
An Orkney tale
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Grief, starlight, and living from the heart
To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it…
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Motherlands
Mothers and belonging
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10 books of women's awakenings: fiction
Somehow, this was harder than my last post, on nonfiction. Perhaps because during the first three or four decades of my life I read vastly more fiction…
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10 books of women's awakenings: nonfiction
I’ve been asked many times about the books which have inspired me most, and contributed to the process of my awakening. As I began to browse through my…
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Here
Back in 2007, my then-new husband took me with him on a weeklong fishing trip to the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides. Fishing for David isn’t…
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The Heroine's Journey: the progress of an imperfect pilgrim
I never intended to write a memoir; it was the furthest thing from my mind. I intended to write a book on place, on how myth and story can bring us back…
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