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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 Kindness of Kevin

I am currently in the middle of writing a short story based around random acts of kindness so it felt both timely, and heart-warming, when I was the...
Cherry

Joe's Roses

Just one of the many things I miss now that both my mum and dad are dead, especially as an only child, is having no one to check my personal history...
Cherry

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...
Cherry

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...
Cherry

‘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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