by Julia Lawrinson | Jun 13, 2024 | memoir, Reviews, Uncategorized
I have been doing A Lot of work connecting the memoir with its audience lately. This has been affirming and wonderful, while occasionally giving me material for my therapist when an interviewer asks a question I realise I need to go away and unpack. One of these was...
by Julia Lawrinson | Jun 10, 2021 | Reviews
Any writer knows the most important review is the first one. You’ve spent all these years working on your manuscript, and, beyond managing to interest a publisher, you don’t know how it will be received. So I was surprised and delighted to receive this from Jan...
by Julia Lawrinson | Feb 21, 2016 | Children's literature, Reviews, The Flyaway Girls
As a jiggly-bottomed girl who can’t do a cartwheel, reviewing a novel that focuses on competitive gymnastics drew some trepidation and perhaps a wobble around my middle. But the The Flyaway Girls is a well paced story for young girls aged between ten and fourteen. I...
by Julia Lawrinson | Feb 5, 2016 | Children's literature, Reviews, The Flyaway Girls
From Good Reading magazine, February 2016 Four stars ‘… In Chelsea we see a character who is determined and goal-oriented to the point of obsession. It’s the sort of drive that an elite athlete needs, but sometimes, no matter how hard the person words, the goal isn’t...