{"id":2806,"date":"2020-12-15T18:57:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T16:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2022-04-06T16:16:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T14:16:56","slug":"what-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/?p=2806","title":{"rendered":"What a year!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There\u2019s no denying this year has been a doozie.
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Usually, around this point in December, I do some kind of round up of the year. However, on a purely personal level, not an awful lot has happened! I\u2019ve written, spent far too much time on social media, watched TV and read lots of books. Doesn\u2019t sound too bad, does it? If only it hadn\u2019t been dominated by the ever-pressing fear of COVID and the restrictions on everyday life. I can\u2019t wait to see the back of 2020! Thank goodness for the clever folk who have produced a vaccine. Let\u2019s hope it offers the promise of some kind of normality for 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, have there been any highlights? Yes. A few quiet, socially-distanced ones. Books first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve already mentioned Laura Bambrey\u2019s The Beginner\u2019s Guide to Loneliness, which I loved. I\u2019m awarding it my book of the year!
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I\u2019m finishing 2020 with another fabulous read, albeit of a very different kind. A glance at a Twitter thread led me to Fran Hill\u2019s, Miss, What does Incomprehensible Mean? As an ex-teacher it appealed enormously. It\u2019s the fictionalised memoir of a year in the life of an English teacher in a secondary school. It\u2019s very, very funny but also moving. I\u2019m tempted to buy a copy to give to everyone who says, with an eye roll, \u2018Oh you teachers, you knock off at 3 and have all those holidays.\u2019
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Other writers I\u2019ve enjoyed this year are Jane Cable, Christina Courtenay and Kate Ryder. It seems a good time for dual narrative and timeslip novels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On TV I\u2019ve devoured Emily in Paris and Home for Christmas (a quirky Scandi romcom) and lapped up the new All Creatures Great and Small.
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I really needed escapism and comfort! I\u2019m currently loving Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year, and Neil Brand\u2019s The Sound of TV on BBC4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like most, I\u2019ve discovered Zoom meetings. A weekly one with some writer buddies has kept me going and encouraged me to finish the book which refused to be written. I must shout out a huge thank you to Alison May, Janice Preston, Lynn Forth, Morton S Gray, Helena Dixon and Elizabeth Hanbury. Tuesday mornings gave me something to look forward to and put structure into an otherwise flabby week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I can\u2019t wait for next year. Roll on 2021. Hopefully, I\u2019ll have 4 new books out and life will get back to something like normality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope 2020 hasn\u2019t been too awful for you and that you and your loved ones have come through. Wishing you all a Happy Christmas, or as happy as we can make it. Thank you, as ever, for buying, reading, reviewing and supporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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