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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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Wish You Were Here (yma whans dhym ty dhe vos omma)

The summer Ruth spends in Cornwall is glorious. She stays with her Aunt Jane, her mother’s younger sister, who, with her husband Roger, moved to St...
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Holding Hands With Number One

One of the things I miss most is having no one to hold hands with. When I first met my (second, now late) husband John I remember being surprised and...

Addicted to . . . Love

He drank three times as much as me during our first date. ‘Yes please,’ I replied when twice he asked if I wanted crisps or nuts with my wine. He...
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Invisible Mending

My mother (Dorothy Thornton) died early in 2012 and since then I’ve begun to write (amongst other things) about my memories of her. One particular...
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Older than Dad

Three or so weeks ago on the 15 th of December 2015 my dad (Ronald Ron Thornton), had he lived this long, would have been celebrating his 92 nd...

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