The novel she wrote for no one

Hannah Plews

Published on: 30/08/2026

Virginia Evans wrote seven novels that didn't sell before her eighth won the Women's Prize for Fiction. What that taught me about starting a story, and starting again.

Writing

I Can't Read a Book the Same Way Anymore

Hannah Plews

Published on: 01/07/2026

What thirty years of teaching literature didn't show me - and what training as a book coach revealed about the wound that underpins every story.

Writing

Life After Teaching

Hannah Plews

Published on: 19/06/2026

What I discovered when I left teaching after thirty years - about structure, guilt, rest, and learning to begin again.

Writing