I think one of the reasons why The Repair Shop is so engaging, as well as moving, is because the world feels so broken at present - and even though they’re restoring objects, it feels as if, with each one, at least good people are trying to make things slightly better.

Just finished this - crying, laughing - and it’s immediately joined my list of all-time favourite books. I rationed myself to one chapter at a time because I knew it would break my heart. And it did. Catherine Newman Alison Barrow Doubleday Books

📢‘When you grow up as a girl [in Iran], you have two options; to be a victim or to be a warrior’

Iranian activist and women’s rights campaigner Masih Alinejad 🏳️ gave a powerful interview to anita rani about her fight to end ‘gender apartheid’.

🎧 Listen now ⬇️

Is it just me or has anyone else still got the Moldovan entry for #Eurovision now fused into their brain, refusing to be dislodged? Are you also capering around the kitchen Moldova-style? Just me then…legacy of Eurovision Song Contest

Just finished #reading I Like It Like That Claire Calman what an absolutely fantastic #Read absolute page turner, couldn't put it down Brilliant story & yes I can see why someone special to me likes the book so much ♥️
#Read ing #Read ers #BookTwitter #BooksWorthReading #BookLover

A Second-Hand Husband by Claire Calman is currently 99p on the #Kindle ! #BookTwitter #ASecondHandHusband amazon.co.uk/dp/B08Z4HMFST?…

Growing Up for Beginners by Claire Calman is currently 99p on the #Kindle ! #BookTwitter #GrowingUpforBeginners amazon.co.uk/dp/B085G178NL?…

Venturing back to the gym later today for the first time in over a month (I hurt my back last time so couldn’t go). Physio has given bossy (but wise) instructions on what I can and can’t do. Feeling nervous - wish me luck!

How much longer can this terrible regime last ? One thing is certain - there will be huge crowds dancing in the streets when it collapses

Just made broccoli and pea soup for lunch today. Cheap, nutritious, delicious - enough for easily 8 portions from half a head of broccoli, 1 leek, 2 potatoes, half a bowl of frozen peas, stock - blended. Going to have it with homemade bread and prob too much cheese 🧀 😳

This is the jacket for my new novel, The Three Graces, out June 8 ⁦Little, Brown UK⁩ ⁦Susan de Soissons⁩ . It’s about 3 women friends who have retired to Tuscany, where all is not as paradisal as it seems. RT please!

If you haven’t tried pomegranate with mozzarella before, you’re in for a treat! For lunch - a classic mozz, tom and avocado salad but with a drizzle of pesto and a scattering of pomegranate.

78 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, we honour and pay tribute to the six million Jews who were senselessly murdered during the Holocaust.

While the victims of these heinous atrocities perished, it is crucial to keep their memory alive.
#HolocaustRemembranceDay

Tweet from one of my favourite inspiring young people Ella Garai-Ebner. Ella’s grandfather was a concentration camp survivor who later came to live in the uk.

Why does ⁦Nadhim Zahawi⁩ think we should be relieved by his tax error being due to carelessness? As he was chancellor at the time, he was in charge of the UK’s money. Also, if the 30% penalty is over £1m, that’s not a teensy mistake, is it? 🤔 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

And a chocolate hazelnut cake - the topping is a sort of dark choc and sour cream ganache (⁦Delia Online Team⁩), a good alt if you find buttercream or glacé icing a bit too sweet. Cake is for family birthday tea tomorrow. Struggle is not eat it tonight 😫