
Francesca Specter
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Podcast host & author of Alonement, a @thetimes book of 2021. Writes The Shoulds newsletter 📧 [email protected]
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Alonement author Francesca Specter joins Kay Burley to discuss how Valentines Day makes any other form of love like friendship seem like a lesser option, and how it's a capitalist invention. 🕐8:30am 👉#Breakfast 📺Sky 501 / Freeview 233 📱Watch live: trib.al/NJ70lwb

Do you love or loathe Valentine's Day? ❤️ Author and columnist, Daisy Buchanan thinks it's a great time for 'showing people in our lives that we love them' but podcast host and author, Francesca Specter says it seems 'antiquated'. trib.al/Rx0iR33 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube



Wise words! Imagine a lot of perfectionists struggle with this (as if self-compassion is a concession to mediocrity) – but, as Thomas Curran explains, that's not the case. Loved Tom's book, The Perfection Trap – for anyone looking to explore this further

Adore this from Radhika Sanghani




A tea towel to remember my latest cohort of Curtis Brown Creative students by - and their books! Not likely to forget them anyway , a supremely talented group of individuals and wonderful human beings. A joy to work with and now to dry dishes with :)


Sending my book to authors I admire was one of the most nerve-wracking parts of the whole process, so to receive these lovely quotes from catherine gray Olivia Petter Genevieve Wheeler Francesca Specter and more was an incredible feeling. Under four weeks until Main Character is out ✨


