Tag Archives: YA romance

Past Imperfect: Rewriting History in the Bridgerton Age

Posted on May 13, 2025 by Joanna Nadin

This article originally appeared at The Nerd: https://thenerddaily.com/joanna-nadin-author-guest-post/ ‘The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it,’ said Oscar Wilde. He was suggesting, we can deduce, that history is exactly that: a story, coloured by the biases, however … Continue reading →

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Autistic All Along

Posted on May 12, 2025 by Joanna Nadin

This article originally appeared on Culturefly I was diagnosed as autistic in the autumn of 2024, a few years after my daughter’s diagnosis with ADHD and the GP’s suggested pursuit of an ASD diagnosis in its wake. I was 54 … Continue reading →

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A Calamity of Mannerings heading your way

Posted on February 10, 2023 by Joanna Nadin

Take a peek into the diary of Panth (never enquire as to her given name), a young woman knocking on the gilded door of adult life and high society. But kicking up one’s heels at the Cafe de Paris does … Continue reading →

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Everybody Hurts – a story of love (and ping pong)

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Joanna Nadin

It began, as so many great love stories do, with an argument. This time, however, there was no prom, or even eyes meeting across a bar; rather boy (Anthony McGowan) met girl (me) on Meg Rosoff’s blog, shouting about Jane … Continue reading →

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Boys. And books. And boys in books.

Posted on July 4, 2013 by Joanna Nadin

  Like my alter ego Rachel in My (not so) Simple Life, as a teenager I fell in love frequently, swiftly and with absolute conviction. Unlike Rachel, I never had to swear off boys and their complications and contradictions, or … Continue reading →

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