by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 10, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Tuesday night I was honoured by Australian journalist and commentator Anne Summers, who launched my book, The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement, in front of more than 120 people at my local bookshop, Shearer’s on Norton Street, Leichhardt. Anne spoke...
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 7, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
The May issue of Australian Vogue contains a feature article written by yours truly. “With Compliments” describes the process of how I came to write The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement. The magazine commissioned the article to coincide with...
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 4, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
My book has been reviewed in the May 2008 edition of marie claire and awarded the prominent red sticker “This Month’s Must-Read”. And with Kylie on the cover, it’s sure to get a few readers. (T)his sweetly compact and honest memoir is a very...
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 1, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
The most powerful ideas are often very simple. I wanted to alert you to one of them: the International PEN Poem Relay currently underway, in parallel with the Olympic torch relay, to protest the lack of freedom of expression in China. According to the Relay website,...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 30, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
Have you ever had a clash of taste or expectations when it came to discussing the books you love with the one you love? It seems that you are not alone. Here’s a link to a fabulous essay on the topic, written by Rachel Donadio and published in Sunday’s NY...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 20, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Last night I was absolutely exhausted, and by way of response to my near-stupor wolfed down enough dinner for two in front of the TV, where I promptly fell asleep soon afterwards, napkin sadly still in place on my lap. The reason for my tiredness – mental,...