Louisa Treger
@louisatreger
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Author of THE LODGER, THE DRAGON LADY, MADWOMAN (a historical fiction Book of the Year in The Times and The Sunday Times) & THE PARIS MUSE @BloomsburyBooks
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My first print review for
#TheParisMuse
. So kind, I cried. You don’t get a review like this without brilliant editing and copy editing, so thank you
@BloomsburyBooks
! And if you’re following me for the heron content, I have something to share on that front tomorrow 💙💚
'The Paris Muse is hard to put down: as a testament to Dora Maar’s artistry, it is galvanizing and hugely compelling'
What an incredible review for
#TheParisMuse
by
@louisatreger
from
@observer
😍
Read the rest of this amazing article here:
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1/2 So yesterday, a beautiful heron flew into my house. I live in central London & couldn’t believe what was happening. It was injured and a couple of crows were trying to attack it. The RSPCA don’t have an out of hours phone line, so I had to figure out what to do.
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🎉🎉 Update on the heron🎉🎉
I spoke to the wonderful vet. The bird has just been collected by Wildlife Rescue Services. She is not badly injured and is going to be rehabilitated.
I’m not crying, you’re crying.
1/2 So yesterday, a beautiful heron flew into my house. I live in central London & couldn’t believe what was happening. It was injured and a couple of crows were trying to attack it. The RSPCA don’t have an out of hours phone line, so I had to figure out what to do.
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2/2 The poor bird was petrified and my heart was in pieces. Huge shout out to the emergency vet who took her in. They were expecting a small bird, so were a little shocked, but took her anyway. Huge thanks to my neighbour P for catching her so calmly. This was beyond my skill set
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London wisteria is getting past its best now, but I was in Oxford last night and saw this 💜
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Thank heaven the heron is getting the help she needs. I will call the vet later for an update.
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Everything is rubbish, so here is a blue footed booby, courtesy of David Attenborough. You’re welcome.
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Came back from a short trip to find that this is happening again. My favourite time of year
#lovelondon
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1/2 The strangest thing about my visit from the heron was that she chose me. She was on my doorstep, waiting for me to open up. Can’t stop wondering what it means. You lovely folk have said luck, an omen, purity, longevity, a messenger from Athena. We may never know 👇👇
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Some of you asked for more images of Chelsea in Bloom. So I took a walk down King’s Road. I’ll be posting more pics over the next few days.
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POV When you’re divorced, but you band together for your daughter’s graduation because it’s the proudest day of your life.
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‘When you turn and look back down the years, you glimpse the ghosts of other lives you might have led: all houses are haunted.’
Hilary Mantel
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2:2 But a strange thing happened when the heron was safely at the vet. Ideas for the novel I’m writing fell from my pen. I went to bed with my notebook and pen, and it was like a fever dream. I wonder what else is coming?
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Twitter, as of today, I am legally divorced. Please send me congratulations. I feel like I can finally move on with my life.
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I’ve got wisteria hysteria, and I never want to be cured.
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Also, thank you for your lovely comments. I appreciate every one of them. Will respond after the day’s pages are written.
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Forget about the problems in the world for a moment and look at this heart-shaped rose bush with me
#lovelondon
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To cheer up the January blues, I have 2 signed, personalised copies of Madwoman to give away, & I’m throwing in a box of chocolates too. Selected as a Book of the Year in the Times & Sunday Times (2022)
Retweet & follow to enter
#Giveaway
#freebooks
#books
#booklovers
#bookworm
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Happy 103rd birthday to my incredible Aunt Rose, who taught me that nothing is impossible at any age.
The first photo is her with her MA thesis, which she wrote in her seventies.
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Made a pilgrimage to the wisteria bridge in Regent’s Park. One of my favourites.
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Forget about the problems of the world for a moment, and admire this heart-shaped rosebush with me
#lovelondon
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London wisteria is on the way out, so this is my last purple pic of the spring, taken by my friend
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This photo from Wild Planet was too good not to share.
Happy Sunday!
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My dog died 2 years ago & for most of that time getting another one has felt like a huge act of disloyalty. But just recently, this breed has been tugging at my heartstrings.
Can you tell me about long-haired dachshunds? Do they shed or bark a lot? I’d ideally like a rescue.
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Everyone! Stop what you are doing and look at this AMAZING painting of the heron who visited my kitchen, by the very talented
@pigeonandquill
!
I might have a little something in my eye.
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Went for my first walk since coming down with a virus last Sunday - and look what I saw 💜
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Been a Londoner all my life and still playing enthralled tourist
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This is the news I’ve been waiting to tell you. I am very very happy. With huge thanks to the incredible team
@BloomsburyBooks
We're so thrilled to be publishing
@louisatreger
's incredible new novel 🎉
The Paris Muse, a fictionalised retelling of one of the most intriguing love stories in the art world, is THE novel to read this summer!
Read the full announcement here:
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One year ago today since Madwoman came out!
To celebrate, I am giving away 3 signed copies. Hardback or paperback, winners’ choice.
RT & follow to enter.
Winner chosen this Monday 12th.
#Giveaway
#freebooks
#booklover
#book
#BookTwitter
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The paperback of
#Madwoman
releases this Thurs 30/3!
To celebrate I have three signed & dedicated copies to
#Giveaway
To enter please follow & retweet
#Competition
closes at noon GMT on 1/4
#free
#book
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To celebrate
#International_Womens_Day
I have ONE signed proof of my new novel
#theparismuse
and chocolates to
#Giveway
!
Just retweet and follow to enter. Winner announced on 11/3
#books
#booklover
#BookTwitter
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Two month’s today the sun will be warmer, the night’s will be longer and my new novel,
#Madwoman
, will be released 📖. RT and follow for your chance to win a signed proof and be one of the first to read it. Ends midnight 11/04.
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Reader, we met on Twitter.
He is kind & funny, & a gifted writer. Children & animals love him, & he’s the only person in the world I like having in the room while I write. He has restored my faith that Twitter can be a positive place & there are good men in the world
@HA_Callum
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Trying to grow an English meadow on my tiny London terrace and oh, it makes me happy.
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Proud mum moment. She learned to live independently, finished her degree and passed her driving test. Our last drive back from Durham was a shared one ❤️
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RIP Monty. You knew how to live - wish I could be as happy as you were all the time. Thank you for the comfort, fun and joy you brought, and for the amazing memories 💔💔
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‘Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent.’
Virginia Woolf, died
#onthisday
in 1941
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Selfie to mark reaching 50,000 words of the novel-in-progress. This is always a point of exhaustion, where I realise how much I’ve done, and also how much there still is to do. Please send whisky and cute pet pics.
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Treats for Monty on his last full day in the world, baked by my daughter: cheese, carrot and rice cakes.
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Magnolias and camellias. A heavenly combination. Love this time of year - when everything is either blooming or waiting to bloom.
#lovelondon
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I just got my first foreign rights deal for my new book that hasn’t been announced yet. I tell you this not to tease, but because it lifted me out of a writing trough. For anyone who needs to hear this, keep chasing your dreams because things turn around all the time.
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Proofs of my new novel have arrived! There’s no feeling on earth like seeing your manuscript turn into a book.
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#GiveawayAlert
I write about pioneering women in history. So for
#WomensHistoryMonth
I am giving away three novels with chocolates to three lucky winners. They can choose which one 👇👇
RT and follow to enter.
Ends 26/03
#Giveaways
#freebooks
#books
#booktwitter
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It’s been a looong winter with endless rain, but there’s light at the end of the tunnel. Magnolia is beginning to bloom all over London.
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One day left to enter my
#Giveaway
of 3 signed, dedicated copies of
#Madwoman
to celebrate the paperback release!
Just retweet and follow to enter.
Go, go, go - ends at noon GMT tomorrow 1/4
#NewRelease
#booklovers
#fiction
#free
#freebook
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I am so proud and grateful to show you the cover for
#TheParisMuse
.
On sale in the UK on 4th July.
You can pre-order it here
With huge thank to the Uber talented
@DavidMann18
and
@BloomsburyBooks
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Life events are testing my resilience at the moment, but this is my haven 💚
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‘When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.’
Jorge Luis Borges
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Moved into my own home today. I’ve been waiting for this moment for years. Happy.
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Twitter friends, I am getting off here for a while. In May/June I submitted a novel to my publisher, got divorced & had an offer on a new house accepted. Need time out to digest everything & dream up Book 4.Take care of yourselves & I look forward to seeing you on the other side
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One day left to enter my
#Giveaway
!
RT and follow to win a signed proof of my new novel
#theparismuse
and a box of chocolates.
‘Dora Maar and Pablo Picasso: the greatest love affair in art history.’
#free
#freebook
#books
#BookWorm
#booklover
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I’m doing an interview for a thing, as they say, and my favourite question is: Who has been my greatest influence.
Answer: my darling Aunt Rose, aged 103, who taught me that nothing is impossible at any age, and wrote an MA thesis in her 70s.
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I just went to talk to my mum’s book club about
#Madwoman
. Mum didn’t live to see me a published writer, she lived through all the years of rejection with me. It was special to talk to her friends tonight - the next best thing to having her with us.
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This is the face of a writer who just finished the first draft of her new novel and is going to loll around in bed and eat all the cookies.
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Fetching my youngest who has just finished uni. All the feels, as they say ❤️
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The garden in my new home is tiny, but there is magic happening in it, and this makes me happy.
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Second flowering of wisteria. Never as good as the first blooms, but still making me happy
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I’m doing a
#Christmas
#giveaway
of 3 signed, personalised copies of
#Madwoman
. Historical fiction about trailblazing journalist, Nellie Bly, who faked insanity to report on horrific conditions in a New York asylum.
Retweet and follow me to enter!
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‘When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.’
~ Jorge Luis Borges
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Sticking around here, but who knows for how much longer? For me, the best part of the dead bird site has been you lot. I appreciate each & every one of you. I’m too old and lazy to build up new followers on another platform. Just saying.
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Mrs Dalloway was published
#onthisday
in 1925. This is the original cover by Virginia Woolf’s sister, Vanessa Bell. No word to describe what this book means to me.
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‘Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent.’
Virginia Woolf, The Waves
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If in need of real-life inspiration for writing a fictional villain, I'll look no further than
@British_Airways
Willie Walsh, brilliantly exposed by
@IainDale
on LBC last night. I am sad & disgusted. Dedicated & caring
#BA
staff deserve better than this
#BAbetrayal
#fireandrehire
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Proofs of
#TheParisMuse
landed at my house. There’s no feeling in the world like seeing your story turn into an actual physical book. Thank you
@BloomsburyBooks
!
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THRILLED to share the news I’ve been waiting to tell you. It’s a book!
Big thanks to the amazing team at
@BloomsburyBooks
who made this happen.
🗝️Cover reveal alert!🗝️
She who enters here
abandons all hope...
Introducing the cover for
#MADWOMAN
, the stunning new novel from
@louisatreger
🗝️ Publishing on 9 June 2022
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So happy to tell you unofficially that I have a new novel coming out in July 2024. Can’t wait to tell you more once it’s official.
I hate it when other people tease like this, but couldn’t keep it to myself.
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Sunset over Hammersmith Bridge.
I’ll have book news for you next week.
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