Caro Giles is a writer based in the north east of England, whose first book Twelve Moons tells the story, across a year, of raising her 4 daughters alone in a wild and isolated part of the country. It's an incredible memoir about caring, isolation, and joy found in tiny pockets of time. We talk about how the pandemic totally changed how she the structure of the book, the challenges of writing and caring and this beautiful idea of writing as a way to put yourself in the foreground, when you have been in the background for so long.

Links

Twelve Moons - Caro Giles

An Evening with Caro Giles - Waterstones Newcastle 26th January

Alnwick Story Festival 25th February

Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng

Empireland - Sathnam Sanghera

This Time Tomorrow - Emma Straub

Caro Giles on instagram @carogileswrites

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