Today I was criticised by a survivor for not replying immediately to her private message at 930pm on a Saturday night.

Whilst I’m happy to receive private messages, I would like to remind people that I am inundated at times. I have 5 social media platforms, run my own company,

Wow - thank you for this incredible review. 🙏🏼🌸

#TheFlyingChildStory documents the therapeutic journey I took with my therapist, Pat. It includes the fairy tale and drawings I created to help me make sense of my experiences and many between-session conversations, with insights

Check out my guest video & post on the fabulous The Time Tunnellers website that celebrates #HistoricalFiction I'm all about Robin Hood's Bay & #female #smuggler #JiddyVardy ! There's a placewriting task too! YLG Committee Whitby Bookshop The Old School House RHB ZunTold Publishing Beaten Track English @The Whitby

Wonderful !! Thank you @MaryEstherJudy Miriam Halahmy Waterstones Manchester Deansgate Annie Everall OBE Book Publisher Review: The Brontë Girl by Miriam Halamy fallenstarstories.wordpress.com/2024/04/18/rev…

For my work I am loving learning new books and authors everyday but I know the world of Booktok will help me even more… so I am now on TikTok…. Please send me who I should be following to help me on my booktok journey…. Thank you 📚❤️📚

Here is my 30 second video taster for my new book The Brontë Girl ZunTold Publishing Barnet libraries Children's Bookshop BookTrust Brontë Parsonage Museum

#Histmed and #histpsych folks - would love recommendations for literature on the history of children's mental health (broadly defined) from the last 5 years or so - need to catch up and update a textbook chapter!

'Exciting news! 📢
Registration is now OPEN for the Children's History Society Conference 2024, 4-6 July, at Newcastle University
The deadline is 20th June 2024.
CHS membership is required for attendance.
Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood History of Education SHCY The Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN)

More info 👇
histchild.org/pages/newcastl…

This looks amazing!

Exciting to see reviews coming in from the US. I love this quote - because I know how hard it can be to feel ‘ I matter’.

“As I finished this amazing book, I thought to my survivor self, 'I matter'. So, I am grateful for the sharing of this intimate life story. Sophie and Pat,

The Flying Child - A Cautionary Fairy Tale for Adults contains the (unedited) words I wrote in therapy to make sense of my experience of childhood abuse. The Little Princess was the character I invented because it was easier to describe someone else than it was myself. Even

If you work in therapeutic and support settings and would like to hear more about the therapeutic process described in the book, we are holding an online book event in collaboration with ad4e

You can book a place here (suggested donation to cover costs)

Celebrating

I’ve received a message from an independent therapy service letting me know that because #TheFlyingChildStory ‘replicates their core values’, #TheFlyingChildStory will be the first book in their new bookclub. It’s encouraging to hear some working in this area are finding it

BOOK BIRTHDAY for The Brontë Girl ZunTold Publishing. In the pix are some of my great research books. Beyond exciting!! Annie Everall OBE Brontë Parsonage Museum LucyMangan BookTrust LoveReading4Kids Barnet libraries MMU Library Children's Bookshop Children's History Society Historical Assoc BBC Yorkshire The Yorkshire Post

And here it is!

Standing in the doorway, stood the slight figure of Charlotte Brontë, the eldest of the four Brontë siblings, all of whom still lived at home with their father, the Reverend Patrick Brontë.
It was clear from the look on her face that Miss Charlotte had seen Kate take the book..

At the end of this clip ⁦Charles Spencer⁩ states “It’s everywhere.” YES. #CSA is everywhere, 90% perpetrated by trusted people. Thank you ⁦Charles Spencer⁩. I’m so sorry for what happened to you and so many, too many, others. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-685903…

'I am filled with hope that one day, we will all know the language of trauma. If we can educate ourselves, each other, and especially children, to recognise its presence, we will be a significant step closer to keeping them safe.'

I can't tell you how encouraged I am to read

On the 24th March we will introduce you to Miriam Halahmy’s new novel for young adults - The Brontë Girl. You can preorder your copy now.

Washing
on the Gravestones
'Kate woke before dawn and lay on her side, chill without Mother’s body to keep her warm. There was only the sharp scratch of Lizzie’s toenails on Kate’s bare legs as she took more than her fair share of the bed.'

March 24. Audio read by Krissi Bohn.