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Gayle Letherby

I am a writer in various ways. I am a sociologist who publishes mostly in the areas of reproduction and non/parental identity; methodology and travel and transport. I  have been writing fiction and prose for a few years now 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. I've have recently begun to also write short pieces of memoir.

Gayle Letherby

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The Rendezvous

Six months on from my first visit to The Rendezvous , the nightclub at the far end of town, I'm still excited as I get ready. My first visit was on...
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Death and Stuff

One day last week I lifted the garage door, took a look, and quickly retreated. A couple of months ago the last of my furniture and boxed up goods...
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‘Dear Darling Daughter’: letters, sore knees, chicken legs

Amongst some of my most treasured possessions are the small number of letters that my dad wrote me the summer before his death in January 1979. I was...
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Reflections of Mother’s Day as a Motherless, Childless Woman

A couple of Sunday's ago my evening viewing was upset a little by the chosen format for that night’s edition of The Big Painting Challenge (BBC One,...

AND SO TO SLEEP (for World Sleep Day)

I find it difficult to sleep, sometimes, Increasingly more often than not. There are reasons, excuses, explanations, As a ‘woman of a certain age’,...

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