isabelashdown.com
Author, mother, dog hugger, friend. Writing coach & Royal Literary Fund mentor. "Ingenious" (Sunday Times) 📚 "Fiendishly Clever" (Red Mag) 📚 "Delivery was late" (Amazon reviewer)
Latest mystery thriller out now with Orion 👉 www.isabelashdown.com
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It’s gorgeous!
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Oh, such parallel paths! 🙌 So encouraging for anyone who didn’t fit the one-size-fits-all constraints of early education.
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Updated pic to showcase my books 2009-2024 📚 15 years, 2 great publishers, 1 amazing agent, many sleepless nights … 10 books! 4/4 (a thread)
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… by 39 I had graduated with a first class degree, signed with an agent and published my first book. Fifteen-year-old me could never have dreamed it. I repeat: NEVER GIVE UP! 3/4 (a thread)
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… I loved reading and I loved writing, but where would that ever get me? In my mid-30s, after twenty years of hard graft, and with two small kids, I enrolled at university to study English and Creative Writing … 2/4 (a thread)
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What a beautiful picture 🥰
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It really is. My father was in the system from 7, battled lifelong demons and was dead by 50. This book was enlightening and all too familiar.
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Same John - we’ll miss you in April! Our paths will coincide again, I’m sure 🙌
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Great news John - can’t wait to hear more ✨
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Easily one of my favourite books of all time 🙌
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Yes! We must check in as we go along, to celebrate our creative successes 🙌
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What a lovely review, Sarah, thank you 🙏🥰📚
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Thanks Clive - I hope you enjoy it! 📚
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What a sweetie ♥️
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Haha, I get you - Len has left many many others destuffed in his wake 😈
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Aw, lovely pic! Thanks for reading Nick 🙏
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Definitely Prancer 😁
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Haha, I was gripped by the Christmas Spirit, Sarah! Happy reading x
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I RELATE
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I really must read it!
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I really liked Yellowface - so original (and taking a brutally honest swipe at the publishing industry!)
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Me too - really enjoyed it.
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It's a wonder we got anything done at all ...
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Yes! And just like a new notebook, the jottings start off neat ... and by the end of the year, it's a scribbled mess of meanderings!
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Oh, what a characterful pooch! 🥰
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Such a kind face 🥰
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Aw, Katy! ❤️