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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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Cherry

!*@*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...
Cherry

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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The Zoo is Closed

A children's story about what might have happened in the zoos during lockdown.

The Dance

‘Hi you.’ ‘Hi.’ ‘How’ve you been?’ ‘Fine, good. You? ‘Fine.’ ‘I’m glad.’ ‘It’s been a while.’ ‘I know.’ ‘I’ve missed you.’ ‘Me too, you.’ ‘You look...
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