An Author's Notebook

The shocking murder of Sarah Everard has unleashed a torrent of emotion around male harassment of women. Abductions of young women are tra...

This one is about friendship. The long-lasting kind. I've just got back from a reunion weekend with my university besties and I'm st...

A friend and I were discussing what I should buy her little girl for Christmas. We hit upon Lego. "Friends Lego, the pink stuff?" ...

Two themes are dominating my notebook this week - literary festivals and our imminent move to a new house. In amongst pages of removal quote...

Self-belief is a powerful but fragile gift. One of my personal heroes has always been Amelia Earhart , a pioneering pilot and a woman of inc...

Back in June, during our days of political turmoil in the UK, a friend texted me to say that her six-year old daughter had stated Theres...

Social conditioning has a lot to answer for. It is one of those vague terms used to explain away all sorts of injustices in the battle for g...

Hermaphrodite Mum Three kids and a single mum Stay-at-Home Dad and I had our first tiff the other day. It was over the washi...

It is a funny business, blogging!  There you are, tapping away at your computer, broadcasting your thoughts, without knowing if anyone is re...

New research from the US shows that mums are crying out for flexible jobs. Hulafrog , a network of US parenting sites, co-founded by my frie...

"I didn't know ladies could smoke!" my young son once exclaimed  sotto voce after watching a (female) friend light up in the...