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Emma Sutton

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The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.nibblesandbubbles.co.uk/

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Memoir

Member Since

June 2020

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Emma Sutton writes about adoption, family life and the considerable gap between the parenting books and what actually happens in your kitchen.

She is the author of And Then There Were Four, the story of how she and her husband became parents to two siblings, and And Trauma Made Five, which picks up their story a few years later, when they discover that they have also welcomed an invisible and rather disruptive fifth member into the family: trauma.

Her writing combines honesty, humour and the occasional parenting catastrophe with an exploration of what happens when traditional parenting stops working. Drawing on lived experience, therapeutic parenting ideas and a great deal of trial and error, she writes about the messy business of learning to ...more

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What are you currently working on?

Emma Sutton Book two (working title: Hugging the Cactus) is in draft format - at 200,000 words it needs a good edit, but I have been putting it off. The story inc…moreBook two (working title: Hugging the Cactus) is in draft format - at 200,000 words it needs a good edit, but I have been putting it off. The story includes a very sad part of my life, so I have been keeping the editing (and hence reliving the grief) at arms' length.

I am also writing book 3 (no title yet) to express the weirdness of lockdown and homeschooling, and a new book that is about my battle with my weight called The Shrinking Woman - which isn't going well since I started comfort eating and the Covid Diet of too much food.(less)

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How do you get inspired to write?

Emma Sutton I have always loved stories and I read all the time - which is not always a good thing as I can get stuck comparing myself to other writers.

But in the…moreI have always loved stories and I read all the time - which is not always a good thing as I can get stuck comparing myself to other writers.

But in the last five years, I have learnt that if I don't find time to write, all the words and ideas stack up in my heart and mind, and they find a way to get out via the keyboard - even if that's a stupid o'clock when I would much rather be asleep.

When I am in the middle of a book, the story takes over my life and I squeeze writing time into as many moments as I can to keep the momentum going.(less)

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