It was published in 2017 as part of a doctoral research thesis in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Newcastle. THE SCULPTRESS is my first novel, based on the life of the American sculptress Mary Callery. UNATTACHED is an anthology of essays on being single in the modern age by women including Shappi Khorsandi, Poorna Bell…and me! It will be published by Penguin in February 2022, but you can pre-order here. Read an extract in the Mail on Sunday here Read about Life After You in The Bookseller here.
Afterlife: The Game is now available Play now Controls: LMB - Use it for everything. Will you achieve your dreams and goals Play various minigames and discover more than 15 different endings. You can order it here or buy at all good bookshops, with extra content available at WHSmith. Life goes by so fast This is a game about your life.
Life After You is, despite everything, a story of survival and, cautiously, recovery… A wrenchingly funny read.” (Jane Shilling, Daily Mail)īased on my award-winning blog Wife After Death, Life After You charts the tumultuous two years following the sudden death of my husband, aged 37. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. Sadly, she dies before she can draw her first breath. “Lucie’s memoir, which started life as a very personal blog, is a raw howl of disbelief at the speed with which a baby-making quickie could turn to life-shattering tragedy. On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born, the third child of a wealthy English banker and his wife. “The story brims with charm, courage and wit…at times hysterical heartbreaking at others, this is a wonderful book that has you cheering on its very likeable, funny and talented heroine as she moves from despair to a kind of hope.” (Deidre O’Brien, Sunday Mirror Book Club Choice) “ is raw, riveting and beautifully written…much recommended.” – BBC’s Andrew Marr. Read more and hear the podcast interview with Richard and Judy here. It was voted as the overall Autumn Bookclub Reader’s Choice title.
At that moment the natural spirit, which dwelleth there where our nourishment is administered, began to weep, and in weeping said these words: Heu miser! quia frequenter impeditus ero deinceps.LIFE AFTER YOU is a Sunday Times bestseller and one of Richard and Judy’s Autumn Book Club picks for 2015 – the only non-fiction title on the list. At that moment the animate spirit, which dwelleth in the lofty chamber whither all the senses carry their perceptions, was filled with wonder, and speaking more especially unto the spirits of the eyes, said these words: Apparuit jam beatitudo vestra. At that moment, I say most truly that the spirit of life, which hath its dwelling in the secretest chamber of the heart, began to tremble so violently that the least pulses of my body shook therewith and in trembling it said these words: Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur mihi. Her dress, on that day, was of a most noble colour, a subdued and goodly crimson, girdled and adorned in such sort as best suited with her very tender age. While it borrows from the likes of Minecraft and PUBG, LifeAfter is very much its own experience. She had already been in this life for so long as that, within her time, the starry heaven had moved towards the Eastern quarter one of the twelve parts of a degree so that she appeared to me at the beginning of her ninth year almost, and I saw her almost at the end of my ninth year. Life After Review - Review by Simon Reed LifeAfter - Real life Minecraft with more zombies NetEase is taking a break from battle royale games to focus on zombies, which seem to be making a big comeback this year. Nine times already since my birth had the heaven of light returned to the selfsame point almost, as concerns its own revolution, when first the glorious Lady of my mind was made manifest to mine eyes even she who was called Beatrice by many who knew not wherefore.