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Carol Lovekin is the author of four novels published by Honno, the Welsh Women's Press. Her books touch on the Welsh Gothic. She writes about mother/daughter relationships, family dynamics & her stories are rooted in the Welsh landscape.

Her newest book, ONLY MAY was published in May 2022.

WILD SPINNING GIRLS (2019) was shortlisted for the Literature Wales Book of the Year 2021/Rhys Davies Fiction Award.

SNOW SISTERS (2017) was chosen by the Welsh Books Council as their October Book of the Month (for independent shops.)

GHOSTBIRD (2016) was a Waterstones Wales and Welsh Independent Bookshops Book of the Month; a Guardian Readers’ Choice for 2016 & in the same year was longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize.


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Ghostbird

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Wild Spinning Girls

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Only May

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The Gift of Weaving

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Places in our Memories: With Carol Lovekin #MondayBlogs #Memories



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Judith Barrow

There are places that remain in our memories, the details may become slightly blurred, nostalgia may colour our thoughts, but they don’t fade. And how those places made us feel at the time is the one thing that remains.

Today I’m really pleased pleased to welcomeCarol Lovekin.

Since Judith inv

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