Sadie Pearse

Author of One of the Family (August 2020, Sphere) & This Child of Ours. I dream big and tread on Lego often.

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A mother’s love. A devastating secret.

Looking for a page-turning weekend read? One of the Family is 99p on Kindle.

https://t.co/e6ArvRyO8e

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@CarolineJHogg Too good

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@DCoonan3 Ha. Exact same thoughts

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@guardian This headline, argh. So seems like the working fathers don’t lack childcare. Could you reconsider it? This kind of thing sets in stone women as default childcarers

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@REHopkinson Urgh. Well that’s dog-whistling all over the shop

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@DCoonan3 What lovely jobs they will all be equipped for, though, once they time travel back to 1950

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@DCoonan3 This sounds like perfection

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@jjaron I do see your point on the broader pool for recommendations. But I think the bookshop thing is about more than looking fancy

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@jjaron If booksellers actively investing in new voices don’t exist, publishers won’t publish those kind of books in the first place.

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@jjaron That algorithm is never going to offer you a debut from a totally unknown but dazzling new voice, for example. A dedicated bookseller (or which there are many) will, driven by a wish to broaden the reach of a new talent, show that book to you

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@jjaron With a decent independent (for me anyway) it’s about curation. I can see and look through books hand-picked by booksellers passionate about reading. It’s - well - better than an algorithm.

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@CarolineJHogg Power-Hogg. Talent-Hogg. Beauty-Hogg. Looking forward to to seeing where you blaze your next trail. You’re the absolute best. Xxx

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@HollyMAuthor There’s a little pause between, so right hand asks the question and left hand answers, if you see what I mean? It actually was a surprisingly good way to hear their voices

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My characters went quiet, and a wise woman suggested I ask them questions - writing with my right hand, and letting them reply with my left hand.

So you know, it works, and also it is Absolutely F***ing Terrifying

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@SandraJDaniels That is hilarious. Will update when I can find a pen...

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@HollyMAuthor Haha. No, I waited politely for her to formulate her response and scare the crap out of me

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@Sarahlou_writes And in many ways a good thing, in fact...

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@Sarahlou_writes I’d love to read this! Have kids but I’m just as interested (probably more so, tbh) in reading about women who don’t

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@rosiefiore @ktgreenst @CWAgencyUK So glad. It sounds brilliant.

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@AnnaBell_writes Fab, thanks Anna!