HeyJaredSusan Hill's Substack
Writing books, reading books, being haunted by The Woman in Black..and other life events
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SH/SH (opens the original)
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In case you haven’t kept up at the back there, my SH is selling things. New things. Unusual things. Lovely thing. Fun things. And tge stock has been arriving and causing much excitement …and mess. ( Biggles is loving the discarded curly brown paper filler stuff. ) So if you signed up to be on my mailing list, you will get lists of items and even pics. But this is the usual government warning. If you don’t want those lists please just tell me and I will zap your name with the sizzling electric wa
The GEESE are back ! (opens the original)
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Anyone who does not live in on the North Norfolk coast, or similar, will not understand how it lifts the heart to see the first full skeins crossing the sky as they head to and from the marshes and the inland fields. ( They roost in the former and feed in the latter.) The cry as they approach over the house has us leaping out and looking up to see the perfect V formations flying majestically over. The skies have been through their usual barren patch from when first the swifts leave on early Augu
The SH/SH (opens the original)
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Which means my Side Hustle. Writers need one. Or many. I find one is best because less complicated, I can give it full attention and - it works. My SH is that I Sell Things. New things. (Anything else, like Trainers I bought in the wrong size, and too late now to return, goes on Vinted. And you would be shocked to find out how often I miss the Return By..date.) I sell.. new books. By me, signed, but by other people too. Mostly, I am just decluttering shelves of duplicates etc. More importantly,
BORED (opens the original)
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Harry and Meghan. Meghan and HarryPeople who talk hysterically about ‘Climate Change’ after one summer which was hot in parts. People now talking hysterically about flooding after two days of rainThis autumn and winter’s Colour being Brown/Grey/Navy/Burgundy/WhiteAndy Burnham’s being from the North. Listen up, I was from the North before he was born an… Read more
Books I wish I had written (opens the original)
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In no particular order.Muriel Spark. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.Elizabeth Bowen. The House in ParisMarjorie Allingham. The Tiger in the SmokePaul Scott. The Raj QuartetVirginia Woolf. To the LighthouseGraham Greene. The End of the AffairItalo Calvino. If on a Winter’s Night, a TravellerCarson McCullers. The Ballad of the Sad CafeIris Murdoch. The Bell Read more
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