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You can't choose your family - but you can choose your friends! A heartfelt, warm and truthful novel about female friendship.
Eve has never imagined herself as a stepmother. But when she falls in love with Ian, he comes with a ready-made family of three children. And, to make matters...
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Who's your favourite stepmother?
Posted on 06 Feb 2010
That's the question Guardian books asked me when they suggested I wrote a Top Ten for them on stepmothers in literature. How hard could that be? A lot harder than I expected.
The thing is, there <are> lots of stepmums in literature,...
The paperback of The Stepmothers' Support...
Posted on 04 Feb 2010
I know you can hardly have missed it, I've been banging on about it so much on twitter but, just in case you did, The Stepmothers' Support Group came out in paperback in the UK today!
As you can see the team at Harpercollins has given it a...
Posted on 01 Feb 2010
Just a quickie for everyone who's been asking: the US pub date has been announced and it's 22 June.
As you can see, the cover treatment is quite different to the UK. It also has some extra material at the back of the book - author Q&A, my...
Posted on 02 Oct 2009
One of the reasons I love Twitter - and there are many - is because if you miss something, you can be sure someone else on Twitter will spot it and let you know. Like a few weeks ago when a Red reader tweeted to tell me Nigella had chosen The...
Posted on 13 Sep 2009
Not sure what's going on with the planets this week (not that I believe all that, of course, but if I did, apparently Mercury's in retrograde - again!!), anyway, whatever the cause, it's been crazy. On Tuesday morning the piece I'd written for...
Posted on 29 Aug 2009
For everyone who's been asking, the date of the live webchat on mumsnet is confirmed. We'll be talking all things step-related at 1pm on tuesday 8th September. For more info click on the mumsnet link on the home page. Hope to see you there!
Posted on 25 Aug 2009
... The Stepmothers' Support Group!
I'm so excited because Nigella Lawson has chosen SSG to be her Nigella Loves on her website, Nigella.com, this week. Nigella's a stepmum herself so I'm doubly pleased that she loves the book.
If you...