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Sarah May

@SarahMayWriter

Writer: BECKY @Picadorbooks January 2023, rep by Clare Alexander @AitkenAlexander Educator: tutor @Faberacademy Born north of the Tyne

 South East, England
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Joined September 2020
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What a week! Factory tour, book club, panel discussion, warehouse visit, hitting the US bestseller list, virtual book party. Not to mention the delicious lemon drizzle I made on Tuesday.
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New paperbacks that we unpacked and put out yesterday @dialoguepub @picadorbooks @SarahMayWriter #LivLittle @BelleSchuler We love the #Rosewater jacket!
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THE GLASS WOMAN is out today. Huge thanks to these amazing authors who supported it from the beginning and to all the writers, bloggers and readers helping give #theglasswoman a great start!
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Applications are open for our comprehensive six-month writing course, Writing a Novel. Led by our tutors @shelleyweiner, Sabrina Broadbent, @nikeshshukla, @RichTKelly, @SarahMayWriter and @JoannaBriscoe. Evening: faberacademy.com/product/wri… Daytime: faberacademy.com/product/wri…
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Thank you to all the brilliant writers who joined us for Start to Write today! The next Start to Write with @RichardNSkinner and @SarahMayWriter is on Saturday 26 August (and there are a couple of places left). Details: faberacademy.com/product/sta…
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I need @SarahMayWriter to see this 👀
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My first literary (crime) festival! Can't wait to meet lots of bookish people and brush up on my murder tactics. I'll be the nerd doing a crossword in the corner. 🧩
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And our final event is our stars of 2024! We will be exploring a first look of highlights for 2024 with @WhittyAuthor, @LWhitehouse5 and @samuelburr and chaired by @adamsimcox! harrogateinternationalfestiv…
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ania bas@ania_bas7 Jun 2023
Important message from Marian ❤️@MarianKeyes P.S. paperback out tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow!
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I'm beyond delighted to be speaking @LondonBookFair (11am, 18th April, Author HQ) about Making Your WIP Stand Out w/ Anna Davis @cbcreative, @mags_ab @JacarandaBooks & @SarahMayWriter @FaberAcademy. More here: londonbookfair.co.uk/ #LBF2023
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Out May 4 and events to follow, for those kindly asking 🙏🏻 #Scoops amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0861545…
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Thrilled to have my new baby, paperback “Scoops”, in my hand Huge thanks to @OneworldNews and @NetflixUK for the wonderful new cover 🙏🏻 Unforgettable picture @SnapperHarrison ❤️
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Sharing the edit for my review of Becky by @SarahMayWriter over on Instagram but here’s a little peek… instagram.com/p/CpVmAqNr743/… ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @picadorbooks @panmacmillan #BookReview #BookEdit #Bookish #BookTweet #BookTwitter #BookTwt
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‘Wonderful on ambition and how resentment can be a great motivator.’ BECKY 👏 @SarahMayWriter dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a… – at Tottenham, London
CONTEMPORARY

CONTEMPORARY 

Set in 1990s London, this is a contemporary retelling of Thackeray's 1848 masterpiece Vanity Fair, starring a protagonist with the same name - Becky Sharp.

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Thank you @OrnaMulcahy for including Becky by @SarahMayWriter and Fling by @jmurray_writes in your '7 Great Books To Read This Month' piece for @TheGlossMag buff.ly/3YJQJ0Z
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🚨So, I have news … Thrilled that my book #Scoops is becoming a Netflix film, with an extraordinary cast. Being played by @billiepiper is beyond my wildest dreams. @NetflixUK #scoop
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Gillian Anderson, Keeley Hawes, Billie Piper and Rufus Sewell will star in SCOOP – a film based on Sam McAlister’s memoir giving the inside account of Newsnight’s bombshell interview with Prince Andrew.
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A tediously quiet cafè shift meant I 'accidentally' ended up hitting Click & Collect. That's this week's reading sorted @CaroleAHailey @SarahMayWriter #BookTwitter
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I have a new shiny notebook! My fountain pen and I spent yesterday evening in a room full of writers and the marvellous @SarahMayWriter becuase I have enrolled at the @FaberAcademy #writeanovel course! I'm hugely excited - I have a novel idea ready to be turned into a draft.👊
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This week is about amazing books! I interview @_franlittlewood about “Amazing Grace Adams” plus I review books by @KWebbAuthor , @LizWebbAuthor @SarahMayWriter & @JillMansell Episode 193 of the Quick Book Reviews Podcast on all podcast apps. Apple link:apple.co/3FVnUIv
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Tonight — such a joyous publication event at @gowerst_books for @SarahMayWriter’s brilliant BECKY, chaired so wonderfully by @SamMcAlister1 ❤️ BECKY — out now @picadorbooks – at Camden Town, London
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We have #SIGNED editions of #BECKY by @SarahMayWriter - OUT TODAY! ‘Spiky, clever, funny' – Emma Stonex 
'Brilliant, propulsive . . . A riot' - Maddie Mortimer 
'A delicious gallop through 90s tabloid London' – Sam McAlister foxlanebooks.co.uk/product-p…
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Do come along! “Becky” is going to be the woman everyone is talking about…. ❤️ @SarahMayWriter @Waterstones @gowerst_books @gabrielaquattro
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Plus, join us at @gowerst_books this Thursday for an evening with @SarahMayWriter who will be discussing her viciously funny new novel with BAFTA-nominated interviews producer and author @SamMcAlister1, details here: bit.ly/3XSVvsf
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