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View fullsize Summer meet up with Hosking House in Sarah Hosking’s sumptuous little garden full of plums, apples, roses and bees. Maggie Gee is just as lovely as I’ve heard people say.
View fullsize Inside a cupboard in pine circle are home made weights. Old tins filled with cement. They’ll do. 😬
View fullsize There’s a certain kind of magic at Skyros. Staff meetings held here. Great team of facilitators. 💕
View fullsize The sea, the sea and fig heaven 💕
View fullsize That moment: when you all find yourselves in bathroom at same time doing one last check before dinner😊
View fullsize Huge thanks to all the team at Bocas Lit and Writer’s Centre for supporting Look at You. Special thanks to the wonderful Shivanee for her care. Thanks, too, to my photographer cousin, Lisa Fernandez. She gets the shots.
View fullsize Friends for a trillion years. 💕
View fullsize This is where the writing began for me, Normandie Hotel, Port of Spain. Under guidance of Wayne Brown. A coming home. ❤️
View fullsize Things I forgot I love about Trinidad, in no particular order. Sugar cane, haberdashers, the smell in washing powder aisle of supermarkets. And my mother’s strange little cat.
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View fullsize Come join me at Temperance Bar. We will be diving into fiction and poetry from around the world. Like a book club, but with no homework. Message me to secure a place.
View fullsize Serendipity and coincidence here in today’s Independent 💕
View fullsize A million years ago, first novel spotted next to Monique Roffey’s White Woman in Khan’s bookstore, Trincity Mall, Trinidad. Little did I know how twisty and rough and wondrous the writing road would be.
View fullsize So happy to be in such brilliant company. Thank you @johnself1 for making it so. 🙏

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I never wanted children until I held my friend’s baby when I was 40 – then everything changed

10 June 2025

Amanda Smyth and her partner were aligned on never wanting children, until, at 40, she felt a deep and non-negotiable desire to reverse that decision

Author Amanda Smyth: One evening, my uncle stood up.

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