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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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'Morning babe'

Monday 8.10am ‘Morning babe, how was your shift?’ ‘I love it that you call me babe, even though I’m 54.’ She smiles. ‘You’ll always be my babe, even...
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Cherry

The Cookbook

An evening of eBay browsing ends in an unusually large number of items in Rhea’s watch list. Eventually she decides on just one purchase and pays 99p...
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!*@*ing Cancelled

For fuck sake it was meant to be a joke. ‘Show your human side’, his advisors had said. ‘Try and get a little closer to the people you represent.’...
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Cherry

‘I’d have thought you’d be over that by now.'

In the last couple of weeks I seem to have been surrounded by acknowledgement of and discussion about bereavement and loss. My home town of Falmouth...
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The woman and the one-footed seagull

Just over half-way through her daily walk the woman, after buying a flat white from her favourite mobile barista, takes a seat on her usual bench and...
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