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It was only a fling—so why did it haunt me for half a decade?
On a fleeting romance, its lasting impact—and the quiet grief of unrequited love...
Jul 10
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Lucy Pearson
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Honor Jones's Desert Island Books
Featuring a lingering poetry collection, and a story where dread seeps into the domestic...
Jul 6
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Lucy Pearson
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Nine heady novels set in Paris
A city of secrets, seduction and reckless excess...
Jul 3
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Lucy Pearson
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June 2025
Charlotte Runcie's Desert Island Books
Featuring the first book to break Charlotte’s heart and an electric collection of poems...
Jun 29
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What I've been reading on Substack
I’ve been busy burning the candle at both ends (when in Rome, etc.
Jun 26
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Lucy Pearson
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Dur e Aziz Amna's Desert Island Books
Including the book that fundamentally changed how she writes, and the book that made reading on the NY subway a complete embarrassment...
Jun 22
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Lucy Pearson
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I've moved into A.C. Grayling's book-filled pad in Bloomsbury
And it started, as all good stories do, with a party in a castle at Hay...
Jun 16
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Lucy Pearson
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I've moved into A.C. Grayling's book-filled pad in Bloomsbury
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Lidija Hilje's Desert Island Books
Featuring a devastating love story, and the book by Ferrante that she never fully recovered from...
Jun 1
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Lucy Pearson
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May 2025
What I've been reading on Substack
Links to everything I've loved on Substack this month
May 29
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Lucy Pearson
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A tarot card reading in Tuscany
And what an Italian healer told me about my future in Australia...
May 24
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Lucy Pearson
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An incomplete list of the literary events I'm bookmarking this summer
Featuring wild swimming at bookish festivals, and a Slightly Foxed soirée in Cambridge...
May 20
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Lucy Pearson
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Sofka Zinovieff's Desert island Books
Featuring an astounding collection of poetry, and the book Sofka re-reads every decade...
May 18
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Lucy Pearson
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