Prize Objects #2 - Charlotte Philby

Writers Bloc #1 Val McDermid

By Charlotte Philby, 25th September 2018
Features, Regulars From imposter syndrome to plotting, in a new series for Marie Claire authors give me chapter and verse on how the writing process works for them - starting with multi award-winning crime writer Val McDermid, who has written 32 books in as many years

The Lives of Others #6

By Staff, 23rd July 2018
Education, Features, Regulars, Travel Georgie Higginson moved from the UK to Uganda 14 years ago. After losing their daughter to stillbirth, she and her husband were inspired to build a lodge on the banks of the River Nile, overlooking Murchison Falls National Park - an area once occupied by LRA rebels

Global Village #6

By Charlotte Philby, 9th July 2018
Design, Features, Regulars, Travel Designer Kate Pietrasik lived in London, Edinburgh, New York and Byron Bay before moving to a town near Biarritz when her daughter was four years old. She reflects on life as a 'blended family', running her own business, and the joy of being rootless

Global Village #5

By Staff, 21st May 2018
Regulars, Travel When Rosalind Miller's daughter was born, the medical student was determined having a child wouldn't stop her moving to India to carry out her PhD field work. She reflects on swapping London for a local community in Bangalore with a toddler in tow

Global Village #4

By Charlotte Philby, 14th May 2018
Education, Regulars, Travel From Scotland to Costa Rica (via East London, New York and Mexico). Mother-of-four Abigail Pilcher talks multiple relocations, opening – and closing – a guesthouse, and how a holiday to Turkey inspired the move of a lifetime

Global Village #3

By Anna Stopes, 11th May 2018
Regulars, Relationships, Travel Mother-of-three Anna Stopes relocated her family from inner-city Manchester to rural South Africa. She talks police lock-downs, home-schooling, and wild weekend adventures

The Lives of Others #5

By Rebecca Armstrong, 9th May 2018
Health, Regulars, Relationships Four years ago, Rebecca Armstrong's husband was hit by a car and suffered traumatic brain injury, which left him with limited mobility and living in care. She recalls what has kept her sane in the maddest of times

Global Village #1

By Alana Cookman, 30th April 2018
Education, Regulars, Travel Kicking of a new series of interviews for the nomadic generation, Alana Cookman reflects on the dreams and realities of moving from London to Denmark, via Chile, with her tribe of four

The Lives of Others #4

By Charlotte Philby, 24th April 2018
Features, Health, Regulars, Relationships Zoe McKenna lost her first child, Jack, when she was 19 years old. Fourteen years later, Zoe reflects on finding joy, and accepting pain, in the aftermath of the deepest loss

The Lives of Others #2

By Charlotte Philby, 24th April 2018
Features, Regulars, Relationships Anna Lyons is an end-of-life doula, and the co-director and curator of Life. Death. Whatever. She explains the importance of her work, what it has taught her about life – and why it is vital that we talk openly to children about death

Prize Objects #1

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