Giovanna Fletcher

The last time I posted I was telling you why I was excited about hosting the Tommy’s awards. Well, I have since done that and I’m thrilled to say that the whole every was as emotional and special as I hoped it would be. It was so humbling...Read more...

I’ve recently opened up about having a miscarriage back in 2012. It was difficult to go through as I felt my body had let me down. I felt like such a failure in my first brush with motherhood. I decided not to talk about it publicly at the...Read more...

Because of the book I’ve obviously been looking back a lot to the early days with Buzz. The first time we met where I was taken aback by his sparrow-like tiny frame, crying because he wouldn’t stop crying in his newborn days, my...Read more...

I’ve been very open about my nerves over HAPPY MUM, HAPPY BABY finally being published. It’s been emotional to have something so personal making its way onto book shelves and there for people to read. That being said, I’ve also...Read more...

This week an unexpected, yet highly predictable, thing happened. Buddy turned one. More so than with Buzz, this seems to have really crept up on us. Obviously he’s been getting bigger, become far more agile and is keeping us on our toes a lot...Read more...

Writing books is a pretty isolated experience. Hours, weeks, months are spent in my office staring at my computer screen, with me either talking to myself or spending far too long pondering the best way to describe an action, or emotion....Read more...

When my editor at Hodder asked if I’d like to record the audio book for HAPPY MUM, HAPPY BABY myself, I leapt at the chance. I’d voiced (is that even the term?!) my two novellas previously, but this was four times the length and much...Read more...

I feel like I’m late to the party here as Podcasts have been around for blooming ages, but I’ve recently decided to listen to a few and have become hooked. Actually, less hooked and more obsessed. I should’ve started listening...Read more...

One thing I’ve realised I need more of is TIME! Time seemed to disappear at the end of last year at an alarming speed. Deadlines crept up on me a little quicker than expected, and I felt I spent a lot of time playing catch up with myself...Read more...