Beth
Beth is a 24-year-old full-time mama, English graduate and self-employed writer living in Liverpool. Aside from books, she loves cooking (formerly working as a chef), Reading Football Club, amassing a disproportionate amount of baby clothes and really bad TV (think Bad Girls). She’s been blogging since 2001, although her early attempts were little more than maudlin teenage whining and hopes that her style has developed slightly since then. She is berated by 99% of the population of England for hating tea.
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Char
Char is 24 and lives in the wilds of Shropshire. After deciding that 3 years of studying Law was more than enough for her, she now runs an architectural office. Mostly fuelled by caffeine, when she’s not zooming around on a variety of Guiding related activities, she likes to try a variety of crafts and is especially fond of making frocks to add to her amazing collection. She can usually be identified by her Irregular Choice shoes, as you’ll see if you check out her blog.
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Donna
Donna is a 33-year-old aspiring writer, living in the depths of Lincolnshire with her husband and two boys. She can normally be found in her glorious writing shed buried under a pile of books, with a cup of coffee, biscuit tin and her faithful, crumb-loving, canine companion. Failing that, procrastinating on Twitter or Facebook!
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Emily
Emily is a 22-year-old English graduate from NY – North Yorkshire, that is, not New York. She is currently freelancing, part-timing, volunteering, blogging and, most importantly, reading a lot. Her favourite things include waterfalls, polar bears and breakfast in bed. She is always in possession of both a jam-packed Kindle and numerous creaking bookshelves. One day she hopes to have a personal library to rival Belle’s in Beauty and the Beast.
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Laura
Laura is a 24-year-old English graduate from not-so-sunny-Scunthorpe. She currently works 9-5 in an administration office where she spends most of her time daydreaming about becoming a freelance journalist/novelist… the next J.K Rowling would do nicely. She loves reading and collecting books (the older and tattier the better), writing, long lie-ins, travelling, pretty notebooks, 80s movies, laughing until her tummy hurts, floral dresses and cream éclairs.
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Lauren
Lauren is a 24-year-old from the sunny south coast of England. She is a self-confessed cake connoisseur, and a mixture of a ’60s and ’80s throwback. A good friend once described her to be “as fluffy and feminine as a meteor”. She likes to laugh (a lot) and believes if you smile then the world smiles with you. She likes to spend her pocket money on vintage fashion magazines, fabric, books, clothes, quirky things for her home, and wine.
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Lauren C.
Lauren is a Journalism and English student at Coventry University, who is currently building up experience in journalism and writing. She enjoys writing about lots of things, and as a result of this she has set up two blogs: one professional, one personal. She has a passion for reading, shopping, blogging and all things 60s. In an ideal world she’d live in a house surrounded by books, Beatles memorabilia and pets.
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Lindsay
Lindsay is 25 (when did that happen?) and lives just outside of Glasgow. By day, she works as the assistant editor for a small award-nominated publisher which produces a range of free magazines, and by night, she spends her time searching the internet for ugly knitwear, obsessing over boy bands and watching trashy TV.
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Nikki
Nikki is 27 from sunny Wales. She is a self-employed writer and social media person, powered by many cups of tea, and is currently planning her wedding – exciting! She enjoys shopping, rubbish television and sleeping more than is really necessary, although she’d quite happily do nothing but read for days on end.
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Rachel
Rachel is a British writer living in Los Angeles, and who still can’t get used to the fact that in Southern California, ‘weather’ is practically non existent. When she is not reading or writing, she does the PR and Marketing for a small luxury holiday cottage company in Kent. See also total foodie and compulsive book hoarder.
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Ruth
Ruth lives in the West Midlands with her husband and a crazy Labrador. She loves Hollywood musicals and old black and white films, and could happily live on coffee and dark chocolate. Her two favourite books are Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, and The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. Attends the gym regularly, if not willingly.
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Sarah
Sarah lives (for her sins) in Milton Keynes, and works for a charity. In her spare time she studies with the Open University alongside being a massive bookworm. She loves tea, dresses with bird prints, russian dolls, writing paper, complaining about politicians, oxford commas, and weekends.
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Sarah B.
Sarah B. is a 25-year-old English and American literature graduate from Yorkshire. By day she runs Penny Masquerade – a handmade jewellery business inspired by vintage design, fairy tales and nature – and by night she knits scarves, devours books and writes. It’s her dream to one day be a successful historical fiction author or, failing that, a magician. For Sarah, life wouldn’t be complete without daydreams, animals, surrealism or marshmallow fluff – the latter being the strangest yet tastiest substance known to man.
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Zoë
Zoë is a 27-year-old full-time writer living in London. She has a huge amount of guilty pleasures which include (in no particular order) X Factor, The Only Way is Essex and judging people by their eyebrows and teeth. Oh, and she also enjoys reading.
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Other Contributors
Alison (blog)
Amy (blog)
Cherry (blog)
Daisy (blog)
Carly (blog)
Claire (blog)
Claire C.
Gemma (blog)
Kate (blog)
Kirsty (site)
Nafisah (blog)
Nichola
Rose (blog)
Sarah H. (blog)
Sarah J.B. (blog)
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