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Seating Arrangements – from Let Me Know When You’re Home: Stories of Female Friendship
Read a short story by Sara Sherwood, following old friends at a dinner party. and originally published in Let Me Know When You're Home. Read More
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A Circular Route
Sara Sherwood took herself away from the Big Smoke to fresh air, green hills and Virginia Woolf. Let her tell you what she found. Read More
6 years ago
Pots & Pals: Supper Clubs and Indian Summers
Team DD were lucky enough to be invited to the first ever Pots & Pals Supper Club. We left with our tastebuds tingling. Read More
6 years ago
My Mother Tongue
After being lured by London’s city lights, Bethany Celyn soon came to realise that separation from her mother tongue, Welsh, was the opposite of what she wanted. Read More
6 years ago
The North-South Divide
Charlotte Carter on hailing from one place and living in another, and that all-important sense of belonging. Read More
6 years ago
?We Used to be Friends
Maria Ilona Moore asks, what happens when a childhood best-friendship fades? Do you go back to being strangers? Read More
6 years ago
Revolutionary Roads
In this personal essay, Harriet Thompson examines whether we can ever trust the desire to follow our dreams, in the context of Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road and her own life. Read More
7 years ago
The Mudlark
Come scavenge with us. Carrie Walsh takes you on a meandering journey of a mudlarker. Read More
7 years ago
gal-dem at the V&A + other events in the DD calendar
High on life following a Friday night spent in the company of gal-dem, once again DD shares with you what's coming up in our diary Read More
7 years ago
My Spare Room
Searching for a home on Spare Room is a strange and stressful process. Abby Parsons shares her own trials and tribulations whilst finding a flat. Read More
8 years ago
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