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Due to the current health crisis all events are postponed for now, but I HOPE TO get back out and meet lovely readers again soon!

Libby x

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Feeling very grateful today and every day for the amazing women in my life, in particular these wonderful two, my mum @bysallypage and my sister @the_mermaid_medic ❤️. They’ve both taught me so much about resilience, determination and kindness and they inspire me every day. As I prepare to become a mum myself I feel so grateful to my own mum for having shown me what motherhood is all about, and to them both for the support they already give me and that I know they will give our son too. They are going to make the best granny and auntie ever. Happy #internationalwomensday

‘How’s pregnancy going Libby?’ This photo just about sums it up. Boxes in the background because we will hopefully maybe definitely be moving house at some point in the near to not near future depending on which way the stars align. Trying to do some final edits to my first draft of Book 4 before submitting to my editor and working against the clock to get it all wrapped up before the baby arrives. Thinking about food 24/7 and not being able to read about or see photos of food without immediately NEEDING to eat that exact thing. Switching between excited and energised and making my husband listen to two hours of ‘things that annoyed me today’ before bed. Wanting to cry with joy every time my tiny baby kicks my insides and wanting to cry with frustration researching buggies and car seats and baby paraphernalia. Staring joyfully at my bump in the mirror every day but finding it increasingly hard to get up from the sofa without my husband acting as a human spatula to push me up off the cushions. How’s your week going?

I’m currently sorting through my bookshelves ahead of our move (hopefully soon!). These are all the books I acquired for research for my next book, The Island Home. I have always been fascinated with small islands, I think ever since reading Why The Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo, set on the Isles of Scilly (still very high on my to-visit list). I love the sea so the idea of living somewhere surrounded by sea appeals but I’m also interested in how communities and individuals adapt to a remote and often harsh way of life. The Island Home is set on a fictional island but is inspired by these books and my research trips to the Isle of Eigg in the Inner Hebrides. Many of these books were purchased from @highlandbks - a wonderful bookshop in Fort William with a fantastic selection of books about Scotland. There are so many small islands in the UK (and further afield) that I’d love to visit one day. Have you been to any? And do you think you could live on a remote island?

When I’ve met readers in the past it’s always surprised me and made me laugh how often they say ‘Oh, you look so much like your picture!’ But I realised recently that the pictures I currently use in my books were actually taken four years ago, at Brockwell Lido before The Lido came out. No judgement to authors who keep the same black and white shot of them in their twenties for years but I have this secret terror of a reader one day meeting me and saying ‘Oh, you look nothing like your picture!’ 😂So much in my life has changed since I had my first author headshot taken at Brockwell Lido. I’ve had two books published and have written four. I’ve learned to drive after years and years of trying. I’ve made new friends and laughed a bunch with old ones. I’ve swum through the winter, showing myself I’m stronger than I thought I was. I’ve fallen down a lot too (quite literally when I took up roller skating) and picked myself back up. I’ve got married and lived through a pandemic and in a short while will be starting a new chapter in the countryside and as a mum. So I thought it was time for some new photos. Here’s one Bruno took today, of me in one of my favourite yellow dresses. Not shown in the pic is my bump which barely fits into the dress anymore or the fluffy slippers on my feet but I like the fact that I know they are both there! 📷

When we move we will have a spare room for the first time and I’ve been having great fun planning how to decorate the room. I love mismatch prints so made these pillowcases to go with a throw we already have. I’m thinking I’ll then mix in plain sheets but in some of the bright shades in these prints. I am pretty terrible at sewing honestly but love picking fabrics and find it so satisfying when I finish something! 🧵 🪡

My current to-read pile, or some of it at least (others are scattered about on shelves and in my bedroom). I am very excited about the prospect of buying a book trolley for my office when we move, having been inspired by lots of bookstagrammers who have them! We are *hopefully* moving house very soon (it’s all proving a bit of a nightmare and still feels very uncertain, so I’m escaping into books this week to de-stress) and I swear about a third of the contents of our flat constitutes books 😂. We have lots of plans for bookshelves and book storage in the new house, but any tips always welcome! 📚📚

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