Arabella Byrne
Contributor and Journalist at Freelance
Writer and journalist. IN THE BLOOD On Mothers, Daughters and Addiction out now with @harpercollinsuk
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1 week ago |
spectator.com.au | Arabella Byrne
I’ve always loved English swimming pools. I can’t help it – I am a pool-fancier. The lumpy feel of the blue lining beneath pale feet; the peculiar, chlorinated smell of the pool hut where you do the knicker trick; the scratchy pool towel, the near-collapsing deckchair by its side; the greying sky overhead.
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1 week ago |
spectator.co.uk | Arabella Byrne
I’ve always loved English swimming pools. I can’t help it – I am a pool-fancier. The lumpy feel of the blue lining beneath pale feet; the peculiar, chlorinated smell of the pool hut where you do the knicker trick; the scratchy pool towel, the near-collapsing deckchair by its side; the greying sky overhead. There’s the swimming, too, but that’s not what gets me. No, the English pool is a particular social idea, a knowing nod to vulgarity, a paradis artificiel in our rainy climes.
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2 weeks ago |
spectator.com.au | Arabella Byrne
‘Why did Albert [not his real name] leave before sports day?’ As is increasingly the norm, I am driving my seven-year-old daughter home from school, and she has questions for me. As questions go, they are reasonable. ‘Albert left to go to a new school’ I say. ‘But he told me it was because of the bat’ comes the response from the back seat.
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2 weeks ago |
spectator.co.uk | Arabella Byrne
‘Why did Albert [not his real name] leave before sports day?’ As is increasingly the norm, I am driving my seven-year-old daughter home from school, and she has questions for me. As questions go, they are reasonable. ‘Albert left to go to a new school’ I say. ‘But he told me it was because of the bat’ comes the response from the back seat. We’ve been here before. The bat is not in fact a placental mammal but the VAT rise on school fees, in playgroundese.
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3 weeks ago |
spectator.co.uk | Arabella Byrne
Look, if you will, at Kate Middleton on the Isle of Mull for her wedding anniversary. There she was in skinny jeans, tucked-in blue shirt and tweed blazer, shod in what looked like sensible walking boots. It’s a look I like to call Royal Prep School Mummy, and she’s been at it for years: on school runs, at charity netball matches, and Anmer Hall photoshoots. It works, as it always has done, by combining registers.
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RT @ReleaseGibbons: 🎙This week's @spectator out loud 🗣 @drarabellabyrne on the social minefield of pools 🗣 @thomasknox on the joy of getti…
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In November & December Booktime, we interview mother and daughter authors Julia Hamilton and @drarabellabyrne about their book In the Blood, in which they both explore how alcoholism has affected their lives, and how they achieved sobriety. #choosebookshops #booksaremybag https://t.co/dih7EwP9b5
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Julia Hamilton, 68, and Arabella Byrne, 40, are mother and daughter. Julia is a novelist, Arabella a journalist. Writing is something they have in common, but it’s not all they share. ✍️ Both suffer from alcoholism and sought help from Alcoholics Anonymous at around the same https://t.co/IV6NlmE0cW
