Wife is published in FOUR MONTHS. So am at the surreal publication stage when people and places who two seconds ago were murky pixels of my unconscious have to be dredged up and cleaned up and ... make sense

I'm so glad you think so

Three young men in tweedy knitted tank-tops/'vests’, a snorer; two statement fringes; and the-man-dressed-as-a-disgraced-Prussian-cadet. Just an ordinary day The London Library

Writing monstrous spouses is clearly Charlotte Mendelson’s forte! ‘Wife’ - the story of the implosion of a marriage - is an absolute tour de force. The prose is gorgeous, it’s hilarious, and I have NEVER hated a character like I hated Penny! Out in August from Mantle Books

Dark, glittering, illuminated by shafts of dazzling wit & shot through with choking sadness, WIFE from the truly brilliant Charlotte Mendelson is out this August. ❤️‍🔥🥀

Regularly trot up stairs British Library to pay homage to/plead for help from the #hilarymantel painting by Nick Lord. Furious we never met; one of the v few writers whose pen-pot/ novelty sharpnener/post it note saying LEMONS I'd kill to keep on my desk.

Charlotte Mendelson is back!! 🌹🌹🌹

#bookoftheday
Daughters of Jerusalem by Charlotte Mendelson Charlotte Mendelson
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2003
Somerset Maugham Award Winner 2004
The Sunday Times 100 21st-Century Novels to Love
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God Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist is fun. It's also horribly dark but I didn't realise that for a bit because I got distracted by Ray's list of dislikes

This chap Michael has been really keen to get to know me, which is obviously lovely

I confessed to him that I am, in fact, the Lord God Almighty and although he seemed confused to begin with I think we’re going to get through it - just as soon as he comes back from the urgent…

Interesting that judges are resigning now

12 years after Baroness Hale, then most senior female judge, pointed out to them that their membership of a club that excluded women was problematic

But a few days since their names emerged in the Guardian

theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/m…

“Have you been involved in a government that wasn’t your fault?”

Well this blew my mind.
Funny, sad*, grim. Iris Murdoch meets Iain Banks. What more do you want?! It's out on 8th August. Recommended.

*tears were shed

This is I think the best tweet I’ve read.

I'm puzzled by why the heads of the civil service and MI6 were confident that being members of a club that has repeatedly blocked women members was fine on Tuesday by not fine by Wednesday

theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/m…

So happy to hear. Thank you

Kate Middleton breaks cover: Smiling Princess of Wales is pictured during visit to farm shop in image that will silence the conspiracy theorists

I can't see Marika Hackman this Thurs which is sad bc she's BRILLIANT. Want my tickets? Click here or DM me:
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