Author Archive: Gill Paul
What If Your Sister Wrote A Novel And It Sold More Copies Than Yours?
What if your sister wrote a novel and it sold more copies than yours? I’m sure you love your sister – of course you do! – but how would you feel if she suddenly decided to start writing novels when that has always been your territory? And what if her debut received better reviews and […]
Books Instead Of Babies
I always wanted to have children. I babysat for neighbors’ kids, am a devoted auntie and godmother, and have great relationships with my friends’ children. But it never happened for me. The reasons were not physical but psychological. I was a mess in my twenties and thirties: low self-esteem led to a variety of self-destructive […]
Dads And Their Daughters
When a gunman opened fire on tourists sunbathing on the beach in Tunisia on 26th June 2015, one girl fled with her boyfriend into their hotel reception – and then she called her dad back in the UK to ask him what she should do. It was a poignant detail of that awful tragedy that […]
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