It was a joy to be part of this excellent podcast 🎧

Literary Mama@literarymama.bsky.social · last yr.

In our most recent episode of This Mama Is Lit!, @evalangston.bsky.social and @ajfields.bsky.social speak with @ellenwiles.bsky.social, author of The Unexpected, about distinctions of friendship and family love, the universal concept of allomothering, and the power of literary soundwalks:

If you fancy a diverting read in these brutish times, The Unexpected is a mere 99p on Kindle for a few more hours. Tea Leaves & Reads bookshop say it’s ‘an excellent book club choice!… a very unique novel that explores motherhood, female friendships and raising a child from a different perspective‘

Interesting — my new novel is about platonic co-parenting, and it’s great to see new research shining a light on this mode of family & kinship which is still widely perceived as taboo for no good reason

The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · 2y ago

Children of parents not in a romantic relationship are just as happy as those in nuclear families – new research

Here we go! #LiteraryAdventCalendar Day 1, and it's one of my all-time favourites: Poet Laureate Simon Armitage listing the manifold humiliations of reading poetry in public.

fun times today hatching plans with Will Adamsdale for launching The Unexpected in Exeter tomo night involving mini readings paired with comedy songs with a sprinkling of anchorman-style jazz flute + book brownies + mulled cider + late night book shopping. Join us, locals! Tix from bookbag.shop

Morning #booksky 👋 If you’re a #bookpodcast fan, and fancy listening to me nattering about some of the ideas about motherhood & kinship that I wrestled with while writing The Unexpected, check out the latest episode of Behind the Spine: Mark Heywood’s excellent podcast

morning! spot the heron 👀

lots of books to sign for a lovely #bookclub ✍🏼 #booksky folk: anyone have any fav inscriptions to share? writers, what do you like to ink in besides something resembling your name?

Launched 🪽 Big love for everyone who came to celebrate #TheUnexpected @ink84books.bsky.social & got to taste the best of book cakes by @thesheiladillon.bsky.social @hqstories.bsky.social ❤️

Snow arrived on the first day out in the wild for The Unexpected! Good omen, surely? Good luck, little book 🐟 @hqstories.bsky.social @unitedagents.bsky.social #booksky #publicationday #newfiction #novel #reading #bookclub #friendship #motherhood #unconventionalfamilies #queerfamilies #bookshop

hi #booksky 👋 A bookish newsflash: my new novel is out tomorrow! It’s about friendship, motherhood, unconventional/queer families, kinship in other animal/human cultures, law… I threw the kitchen sink at it, according to The Times. Still time to preorder from your fav bookshop ☺️ t.ly/x8Pbq

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