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Gayle Letherby

I love to write. I am a sociologist who publishes mostly in the areas of methodology (including creative ways to present data), reproduction and non/parental identity, meanings and experiences of love, loss and the aftermath of death, solitude and/or loneliness, gender and identity, working and learning in higher education and travel and transport. I  have been writing fiction and memoir for about 14 years and draw on my own experience - both personal and academic - in my work. Other inspriations come from the books I enjoy and the news items that make me cross. 

Gayle Letherby

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The Seven, Or So, Ages of Man

On the morning Robert (Bobby) Adam Wilkes is born the mid-Manchester hospital where he is delivered is feeling the strain. With winter on the way...
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Reds Under the Beds

I am not a particularly nervous, superstitious or gullible person. I don’t deliberately avoid cracks in the pavement or throw spilt salt over my...
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Cherry

Consistent Comforters

The dolls were a gift from the man that ran me down. It was my own fault and I didn’t deserve the present. I was playing out with friends from across...
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Train Times

I ride the train. Away from daily life; from paid labour, from domestic chores, from reality. My book stays on my lap. Too much to see. Once through...
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Doldrums… Diversion… Delight… Destiny

Jake is bored. Never before has he been this bored, so bored in fact that he is sure that nobody has ever been this bored, nor anywhere close to it,...

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