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One year on
Friday marked one whole year since The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair hit bookshop shelves. I spent that day visiting schools and bookshops to talk about the book and sign copies. The following week I would visit more schools … Continue reading
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Tagged children's author, children's books, children's mental health awareness week, dawn, devon, fossils, frost, Hannah Foley, ice, mental health, mental illness, middle grade fiction, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, winter, Zephyr Books
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Launch!
It has been the most incredible couple of weeks launching The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair. I have visited bookshops, libraries and schools, and met so many wonderful people. There have been super kind reviews of the book online … Continue reading
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Tagged book launch, Hannah Foley, Jurassic coast, mental health, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, Zephyr Books
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Bleak midwinter
So many people complain about January as being long and bleak but it is the darkening of November and the deep gloom of the days around the Winter Solstice which make me cower. By the time New Year is done, … Continue reading
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Tagged Author events, children's books, fossils, hyacinths, January, Jurassic coast, mental health, midwinter, river, snow, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair
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Bright windows
The evening sky turns to dark teal and then midnight blue. A shining slice of new moon is framed by chimney pot silhouettes. Among the houses life tableaus blink on in bright windows before the curtains close – a real … Continue reading
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Tagged children's books, compost heap, EMForster, evening sky, fields, fig tree, fungi, Hannah Foley, Howards End, Jacqui Sydney, leaves, mental health, MS, Multiple Sclerosis, North Devon, november, ocean, reviews, sea, spring mulch, Stevenage, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, woodland
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Growing
Just after I signed off from the blog I had news I could reveal the cover of my latest book, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, so here it is in case you missed it on Twitter and Instagram. The … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, author, beetroot, blackberries, children's books, Claire Ratinon, climate change, cornflowers, cover reveal, crops, deadlines, devon, drought, environment, family, grow your own, growing, Jessie Price, Jurassic coast, Lucy Rose, managing time, Mauritius, mental health, mental illness, pollinators, proof, Rashmi Sirdeshpande, resolutions, Riverford, sewage, soil, spinning plates, summer, summer of sewage, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, time, Unearthed, Wales, writing, Zephyr Books
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Book news
The other week a bird woke me with its clear song while the day was still dark. Our bedroom double-glazing is badly fitted so we are usually woken by raucous seagulls or the revving engines of the early-shift workers heading … Continue reading
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Tagged author, bird song, blue tits, book news, celandines, children's author, children's books, Christmas productions, festive jumpers, Hannah Foley, mental health, new book, primroses, SCCR, Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, SMHAF, spring, The Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution
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SMHAF
I’ve been thinking about how The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle was supposed to be out in the world this week, and in all honesty, I’m very relieved it’s not. What a strange time it would have been, to be … Continue reading
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Tagged blog, books, COVID-19, mental health, perspective, SCCR, Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution, Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle
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