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Annie Ruth Benagh's avatar

I have a newborn baby, my second and after a very difficult postpartum experience with my first, I'm so thrilled that I've had an enjoyable, albeit chaotic and sleep deprived, experience this time around. Every Saturday morning since the arrival of baby Sadie, my partner has taken my eldest daughter downstairs for breakfast and brought me a coffee that I've had while feeding Sadie in bed and I've read Home. She nods off for her first nap of the day and I continue to read, always following through on the articles linked and to peruse the window shopping links. It is such a restorative time in my week after a hectic Monday to Friday and I cannot thank you enough for the joy it brings me! I look forward to it every week and adore your work. Thank you so much India x

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Rukmini Iyer's avatar

Love the 300-1 retort. Am afraid (but similarly without regrets) that was equally sharp at a group dinner many years ago, where one chap (in middle management or similar) wouldn’t stop belittling the idea of writing for a living. Finally, getting increasingly fed up, when he asked if it wasn’t terribly hard to get one’s (little) books stocked in Waterstones, let alone on a table, I finally retorted ‘My books have THEIR OWN TABLE in Waterstones.’ (Memory gap as to whether I said ‘their own fucking table’.) He left shortly afterwards.

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