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THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN IS COMING!

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A magical, time-travelling love story, from the world of The Midnight Library is out on 26th May 2026. When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop?⁣⁣No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there.⁣The chance to re-live the moments that meant most.⁣To […]

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A reviewer recently said that my sentences are too simple and that I could do with knowing some more words and so this is a quote for him because he is probably right but I like simple words as they make me calm
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A reviewer recently said that my sentences are too simple and that I could do with knowing some more words and so this is a quote for him because he is probably right but I like simple words as they make me calm
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Very impressive book. To take an incredibly depressing premise about a man with Alzheimer’s and planning euthanasia it is strangely not depressing. I say this as someone with a v close relative going through similar right now. I think what Emma Cline shows is that if you write anything sharply enough the end effect is life affirming because you see things sharper. And writing about life on the edge of death can bring that energy. Unflinching boldness. Didion via a modern sass. A very clever and sometimes funny novel about cognitive decline. Brilliant writing pencil sharpening the mind
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Very impressive book. To take an incredibly depressing premise about a man with Alzheimer’s and planning euthanasia it is strangely not depressing. I say this as someone with a v close relative going through similar right now. I think what Emma Cline shows is that if you write anything sharply enough the end effect is life affirming because you see things sharper. And writing about life on the edge of death can bring that energy. Unflinching boldness. Didion via a modern sass. A very clever and sometimes funny novel about cognitive decline. Brilliant writing pencil sharpening the mind
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Somewhere along the way men decided it is better to aspire to be a lump of granite than, say, a woman with empathy
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Somewhere along the way men decided it is better to aspire to be a lump of granite than, say, a woman with empathy
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I like that in every Spanish bit of media I look like a hitman in a B-movie about an estranged wife kidnapped for ransom on a bullet train
I like that in every Spanish bit of media I look like a hitman in a B-movie about an estranged wife kidnapped for ransom on a bullet train
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I like that in every Spanish bit of media I look like a hitman in a B-movie about an estranged wife kidnapped for ransom on a bullet train
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Clarification. Afraid after trying. Afraid after being prescribed the wrong dose of diazepam and then meeting a brick wall with my GP. Afraid after the horrendous panic disorder and agoraphobia meant that going to a potentially counter-helpful doctor would exhaust me for a week. Afraid of spending money I couldn’t afford on a therapist I didn’t believe in. Afraid after never even having therapy as an option. I am lucky now. I can get all the therapy and all the diagnoses I need. Time and postcodes and situations have changed. When your only experience of help causes further harm you stop trying. At least I did. For twenty years.
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Clarification. Afraid after trying. Afraid after being prescribed the wrong dose of diazepam and then meeting a brick wall with my GP. Afraid after the horrendous panic disorder and agoraphobia meant that going to a potentially counter-helpful doctor would exhaust me for a week. Afraid of spending money I couldn’t afford on a therapist I didn’t believe in. Afraid after never even having therapy as an option. I am lucky now. I can get all the therapy and all the diagnoses I need. Time and postcodes and situations have changed. When your only experience of help causes further harm you stop trying. At least I did. For twenty years.
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