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Australia & New Zealand, you’re up! Let’s go! #TheLightBetweenUs is published Down Under in sparkly hardback today ✨🇦🇺✨🇳🇿✨ - Thanks to @penguinbooksaus and @penguinbooksnz. If you’re in Aus & NZ and prefer reading paperbacks, the exported large “trade” paperback will be available there in 5 days (Aug 20th). Yep, the different dates make me feel like a time traveller. And the ebook is available right nowwwwwww 📚 Tell your Australian friends! Tag your Australian friends! - 📸 by the wonderful @literaryleisha, her feed is beautiful, go and look 👀💯
Earlier this year I asked @jonnohopkins and I to each name our favourite pieces of popular classical music. The answers were Elgar’s Cello Concerto and Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto. I looked them up, and they are both being played at the @royalalberthall this summer, so here we are! 🎶 Book tickets to things, culture is important. Bring your kids. I find theatre and classical music often prohibitively expensive, but @bbc_proms tickets start at £5. 🎶 (I mean, I’ve said all that, but it’s not been without its mishaps. I accidentally booked us tickets in a box? Behind an elderly couple necking 2 bottles of champagne?? And the lady in front decided to conduct the entire concert from her seat, nearly taking my eye out??? Nice to spend a few hours with music lovers!) 😝 #BBCProms
Let’s celebrate the book being *finally* out in the world! This is a novel about friendship, so... GIVEAWAY: follow me, like this post and tag your best friend in the comments, for a chance to win a signed hardback of #TheLightBetweenUs, a gorgeous @eejewellery necklace (pictured), and the opportunity to name a star! An actual star! (But will you name the star after yourself or your best friend?!) 🇬🇧 UK only. Winner chosen at random on 20/8/18 at 10am. Instagram not affiliated with this competition. Good luck!! 🌙✨
It’s out. It’s here. THE LIGHT BETWEEN US is published today in the UK — available at all good bookshops and online. It’s a novel about time travel, art and history, a group of hella smart female friends, and the grey area between platonic friendship and unrequited love. If you like “what if?” stories, this is for you! - I took this photo in Oxford, where part of the story is set ☺️ Thea and Isaac meet while studying at Christ Church — and, in chapter one, Thea breaks into the University science labs to undertake an illicit experiment with time travel, starting a devastating chain of events... - Authors are nearly always self-effacing (I’m bad for this!), but I love this story, and I love this group; it’s the kind of female friendship I don’t see enough on screen so I wrote it instead. It’s also fairly diverse which is v important to me to reflect the world I live in. And, after writing Hold Back the Stars in which a couple meet for the first time and fall for each other, I wanted to write a pair with a complicated pre-existing history — so I picked a couple of friends, Isaac and Thea. Is their friendship *definitely* as platonic as they think? - Thank you for supporting (or, y’know, simply just tolerating) me. Being able to write novels and being supported by my colleagues, friends, family, publisher and readers means the absolute world. - #TheLightBetweenUs 🌃🌇
2 weeks ago I wasn’t going to have a launch party for my second novel. 1.5 weeks ago I decided I’d regret not marking the moment — after all, publishing a book is a lotta work! Both my publisher and local bookshop jumped into action. Some Pimms, a rainbow cake, a balloon bearing my book title written in glitter, and bowls of crisps later, I was overwhelmed when 50 people turned up to a small bookshop in Kentish Town. In August, when everybody’s meant to be on holiday. - I said it last night and I mean every word: The Light Between Us is a novel about friendship. I am bowled over to have so many friends turn out for me, at short notice, on an evening in August. Thank you. - (Photos all stolen from the internet) - #TheLightBetweenUs 🌙✨
I knew Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures were going to play a small part in the story of The Light Between Us; the way she plays with forms and curves, and the suspended crossing strings, made me immediately think about time and timelines! I felt strongly I wanted to write a novel about time travel which didn’t only include physics or science fiction, but also history, and art history, with real pieces of art the reader can look up and see. I love it when books touch upon real places and people which I can explore after reading! - As luck would have it, as I finished the third draft in January, King & McGaw had this wonderful Hepworth “Spiral” for sale. And it was my birthday. So now the book is finished, and published this week, and I have a Hepworth print (that reminds me of time travel) on my bedroom wall. 💙 - #thelightbetweenus
We’re currently doing up our garden and I’ve been looking for inspiration. I don’t think anything can beat Yves Saint Laurent’s Le Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech... Would this much bedazzling colour work in a small garden in north London?! 🍃 - side note: I don’t remember wearing a NASA t-shirt, bunches, and a sack skirt(?) to such a fashionable location, but perhaps the heat had gone to my head. 🤷‍♀️