THE CAT THAT KNOWS EVERYTHING
Little Stories Everywhere
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WRITING
A NOVEL
THE EMERGENCE
OF JUDY TAYLOR
Judy Taylor has a husband she loves, a comfortable home and a life that, by any reasonable measure, works.
Then she leaves it.
In her forties, with no grand plan and no certainty that what she’s doing is remotely sensible, Judy walks away from the life she knows.
What follows is funny, painful and unpredictable: an attempt to discover whether choosing a different life is the same thing as becoming a different person.
“Like Anne Tyler to a Miles Davis soundtrack.”Saskia Angenent
“Heart-wrenching yet dryly funny.” — GRAZIA“One of the best books I’ve read this year.” — SCOTT PACK“Brilliantly observed.” — MATT CAIN
JUDY, OUT IN THE WORLD
“A REMARKABLE
NEW TALENT IN
BRITISH WRITING.”
Tim Lennox, then Managing Director of eBooks by Sainsbury’s, sponsor of the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award
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A NOVEL
THE DARLINGS
Mark is married to a mender, a stitcher, a fixer.
Sadie loves him, but she never knew him when he was the golden boy, when his life seemed to be going somewhere.
Ruby did.
When she comes back into his life, she seems to love Mark not for who he might become, or who he once was, but for who he is.
The Darlings begins with an affair, but it isn’t interested in passing judgement. It’s interested in something less comfortable: what it means to be truly known, and our need to be loved for who we are — faults and all.
“COMPELLING, FUNNY AND SATISFYING.” — KRISTIN PEDROJA“ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT.” — IAN WEBSTER
THE DARLING MONOLOGUES
I wrote and performed the monologues while trying to find my way back into The Darlings — and back to my natural writing voice. Testing the characters in front of a live audience became the engine behind later drafts.
SAY IF IT’S
NOT OKAY
A love letter to my mother, written after her death, and an acknowledgement of two years of therapy.
LIVE WORK
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY MET JULIE MET JAZZ MET KIERKEGAARD MET JUNG MET LOVELY JOHNNY MARR
What is true love? Can a six-second kiss change everything? Why should you take every opportunity to dance? What is limerence? Is music the answer to everything? Or philosophy? And what’s Johnny Marr’s secret to a happy life?
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY ANGELA JACKSON
A HUNDRED
THOUSAND
HEARTBEATS
“We get a hundred thousand heartbeats every day.
Spend them well.”
Musical arrangements and guitar by Malcolm MacFarlane.
SIX-SECOND KISSESJULIE LONDONNORA EPHRONDANCINGJOHNNY MARRHEARTBREAK
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EVIL AVOCADO
Little Stories Everywhere
PLAY ↗RESEARCH
The recurring question underneath much of the work is what happens when comedy sits beside pain — and how a shift in tone can change what an audience is able to hear.
Current doctoral research explores comedy drama in British television series. Submission planned spring 2027.
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