How to enjoy British summer
i've done a mood-board
👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼 Hi! Long story short: I’m a bestselling novelist who started investigating how to build a life in August 2024, because despite my supposed dream career I wasn’t ~vibing~ in the way I wanted to be. I felt like something was missing? Unpicking what it takes to build a life (like, a good one) led me to taking a job in a high school, just to see. Turns out books light up my brain but pastoral work with teenagers feeds my soul, so now I might be in the middle of a career change. I don’t know. I’m currently studying children and young people’s mental health, whilst also promoting my latest rom-com Love at First Sight. Apparently I contain multitudes. Don’t we all?
I’m proud to say that Grazia magazine once declared that I am a ‘general all-round-speaker of what-is-in-our-heads’, Stylist said my honesty and voice are unique, I was Marie Claire’s #BreakFree from Fear Ambassador many moons ago, and I’m a ‘Happiness Expert’ according to The Independent. I’m almost 40, a solo parent by choice, I truly believe on going all in on the adventure of your own life. Knowing all this means you’re all caught up. WELCOME!!
The problem with mood-boarding an ideal summer became immediately apparent to me when I realised I do not, in fact, live in the New England of a Nicholas Sparks movie. Isn’t that a bummer! I find it quite rude that I do not live in this exact house:
… as per Sirens on Netflix (which I enjoyed, because it’s impossible not to enjoy Meghan Fahy and that’s a simple biological fact).
If you asked me to imagine my ideal June/July/August, it would be exactly like I’ve captured on Pinterest, on a mood-board I felt compelled to start adding to as soon as we hit June 1st. I don’t what happened, I just suddenly felt like yeah! Summer! And then it rained for two weeks.
