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Maggie Gee

@maggiegeewriter

Writer & trained editor. Ask! 17 books written so far, OBE for literature. Vice-Pres RSL, ALCS ex-NED. ❤️freedom of speech, pals, family, NHS, cities, skies.

 London, Ramsgate, beach, study
Joined July 2011
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…and full moon lighting up the tidal pools a few days ago in Ramsgate
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Light making gingham tablecloth last night of the pavement in Bloomsbury
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Ian Duhig FRSL@ianduhigOct 29
"I think the pit of despair really ties the room together now, don't you?"
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You can now pre-order your copy of my forthcoming book directly from my publisher’s website. @YaleBooks I look forward to sharing this new work with you! Reserve your copy here: bit.ly/4ionfBe
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#NewProfilePic Love this new Chinese edition of my Virginia Woolf in Manhattan
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Replying to @KatyaTaylor @FaberBooks
Agreed
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#aurora from south Notts! @aurorawatchuk
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I’m at Hatchards on 27th October in convo with 2 fascinating writers who span fiction’s dazzling range ovpossibilities - the real, urgent and human, the stylised, elegant game.
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Just added! Join us on Piccadilly on 27th October, as stellar authors Amy Abdelnoor and Rebecca Perry discuss writing debut novels, in conversation with the majestic Maggie Gee! AmyAbdelnoorAndRebeccaPerryA… @GrantaBooks @maggiegeewriter @HutchHeinemann
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Observer paperback of the Week today is Kitty Mrosovsky’s Quake. She died 40 years ago, the novel, frank, flawed & brilliant on sex and death, was turned down by publishers, now it comes out to accolades. I wrote an essay for the Foreword observer.co.uk/culture/books…
Paperback of the week: Quake by Kitty Mrosovsky

Paperback of the week: Quake by Kitty Mrosovsky

The author’s final novel is finally published 40 years after her death and provides a frank, idiosyncratic portrait of sexual desire

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June 1927 Virginia Woolf on a full eclipse (London's today was a partial eclipse though spectacular) 'We had our smoked glasses...it became darker & darker as at the beginning of a violent storm...there was no colour. The earth was dead.'
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Maggie Humm@MaggieHumm1Feb 4
I have a new banner - exciting! Almost as exciting as seeing my first lighthouse aged 6 (cover photo) @EdinburghUP
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Be of good cheer, writers, acclaim & publication can come 40 years after yr death: I wrote the foreword to my friend Kitty Mrosovsky’s novel Quake, Guardian paperback of the week: emea01.safelinks.protection.…
Paperback of the week: Quake by Kitty Mrosovsky

Paperback of the week: Quake by Kitty Mrosovsky

The author’s final novel is finally published 40 years after her death and provides a frank, idiosyncratic portrait of sexual desire

observer.co.uk
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My mechanical hero
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I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!
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‘Man Beats Bin’ Congrats @CountBinface, we still ❤️you
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We watched the eclipse on the beach with pal. Seagulls went quiet, breeze blew chill, light reddened. Last time was in Willesden’s Roundwood Park, also wonderful, but better this time without notebooks, just living on this planet under these skies
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Now shortlisted for the #WainwrightPrize !!! Congratulations @nicolawriting - this is so well deserved !👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Nicola Chester (@nicolawriting) profile pictureNicola Chester@nicolawritingMar 18
Ghosts of the Farm, a lively, haunting fusion of memoir & historical biography: rural women’s lives, 60-80yrs apart, in the same fields. Shortlisted Richard Jefferies Award, Spectator Book of the Year, BBCR4’s Ramblings. ‘Nicola is the John Clare of our time’ (Guy Shrubsole) 1/3
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Well done Rod, making a mini-row even after you died! Gadflies of every colour & culture make us think about what we believe. ❤️
Maggie Gee (@maggiegeewriter) profile pictureMaggie Gee@maggiegeewriterAug 4
Replying to @catwrote @LiddleRod
I don’t mind if anyone is provocative. Sure, it’s v boring if they’re politicians, but he wasn’t. I only met him once, on the Kent London line, & found he was interested in Neanderthals like me - wanted to write a book. Now he won’t.
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Alas @LiddleRod . Loved his mad, brilliant & wicked humour, & his brains. Occasionally I felt he was drumming the beat of the right wing organs that paid him but mostly he was just creatively, disrespectfully, gorgeously funny. Ohhh
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