E. Foley and B. Coates are the authors of the number-one bestseller Homework for Grown-ups: Everything You Learnt at School and Promptly Forgot. Their new book is What Would Boudicca Do?: Everyday Problems Solved by History's Most Remarkable Women. 

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First flower from the garden. Delighted to be in February.
To All The Libraries I've Loved Before 📚(1) This is the first library I remember visiting for Story Time when I was about 5. It's probably the library I've had the longest relationship with apart from my current squeeze. My mum used to take us there because I think we were marginally quieter inside and she'd get 5 mins to have a coffee while we drank Panda Pops in the cafe or played in the lift. I remember being given a 'Bookworm' 📚🐛badge by the librarian and thinking 'Oh, *that's* what I am.' It used to have a cinema room (where we saw Sinbad the Sailor⛵) and an audio library where I borrowed my first Nick Cave tape cassette 📻when i was 12 so is responsible for seminal non-book moments in my life too. And all for pennies. Significant book memories (misty flashback filter here): 🦁 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - inspired Potter-levels of obsession in me for the series. Aslan taught me that a book can make you upset and angry but still love it. 🐣 I'm Adopted - I remember picking this out with trepidation when i was about 8 but my mum was totally cool about it. 😦 The Trial - obvs it was some years later that I read my first Kafka thanks to this library. 🧚‍♀️ The Faerie Queene - ordered this up for my university reading list. The copy they got for me had uncut pages, which was easily as exciting as Britomart's adventures. Because I felt so happy and grounded in this library, whenever i moved to a new place the first thing i did was get my local library card. Thank you, Bedford Central. 🙏 #libraries #librarylove. Thanks @waymarking for the pic.
In March Boudicca will be available in a handy, bendable, economical paperback. First copy just arrived and she looks brill. Thank you @faberbooks ⚡⚡⚡
#mood.