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A full week here. The number of plates and the intensity of their spinning seems to have ramped up a gear. Gratefully I realise I’m not alone. Friends share they’re also feeling the weight of keeping everything going. We’re in it together. We hold on tight.
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I first read Graham Swift’s Mothering Sunday years ago, the selection of a member of my book group. It caused much excitement in the village pub as we all sat around with our copies, Modigliani’s bold and beautiful ‘Reclining Nude’ relaxed and unapologetic on the cover. “What…
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Welcome to It's All About the Words Substack-style. Thank you so much for taking the time to come and visit my new writing space—it genuinely means a lot. I’m sure many of you have come across from Insta to say hello and show support and I’m very grateful for that. And to those…
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So, erm … spring. Nature providing a very clear reminder here in the UK this week that progress doesn’t follow a steady trajectory. We’ve taken an about-turn back to winter. Not even blessed with the deep, school-closing snow that blanketed some. Just day after day of minus…
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It’s March, early March. And I can already say with a fair amount of certainty that Edward Enninful’s fantastic memoir, A Visible Man, will be one of my…
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The year is definitely starting to gather momentum, the weeks speeding up. This time last week I felt the daffodils seemed a little ahead of themselves…
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Something a little different this week. I want to share a piece of writing I submitted for a wonderful course I took back in 2019. The course was called…
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Our Substack Story #2: February reflectionsJetzt anhören (56 min) | This is a podcast by Helen Redfern and Claire Holden. A month has passed since Helen and I launched Our Substack Story, a…
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Despite the fact that the temperature has plummeted again here in the UK, the stretching light and the sudden explosion of daffodils have given a real…
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Earlier this week over on bookstagram a friend of mine wrote a post asking for comfort reading recommendations. Wonderful human that she is, she was…
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My week in brief? Quiet, snotty and surprisingly restorative. It’s been half-term here, and my daughter’s cold has morphed through various icky…
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Timed impeccably to coincide with Mrs Palfrey’s arrival at the Claremont Hotel in the opening line of the book, I first picked up Mrs Palfrey at the…
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It's All About the Words by Claire Holden

Sharing thoughts and sparking discussions about books, TV, film, writing, life ... and the way they all beautifully interconnect. Reading, writing––it's all about the words.
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