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Helen Heckety retweeted
25 Nov 2024
A few of my favourite reads recently - does anyone have any recommendations of similar reads I might enjoy?
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Helen Heckety retweeted
Check out the latest @BBCRadio2 Book Club selections at readinggroups.org/news. The new podcast episode with @sarajcox is available now on @BBCSounds. It features David Nicholls, Helen Heckety (@lehenner) and Amor Towles (amortowles), and is not to be missed! #R2BookClub
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Helen Heckety retweeted
We’ve so loved all your incredible reviews for #GIRLS by @kirstycapes and so we’re giving away one FINAL hardback to a lucky reader! 💥🌼 RT to #win by the end of today, and if you can’t wait it’s just 99p on @AmazonKindle for a few more days! 👉🏼amzn.eu/d/hKYO3dK
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Helen Heckety retweeted
8 Aug 2024
This by ⁦@lehenner⁩ may well be my book of the year. It starts in a whimsical almost ‘rom com’ tone but quickly sheds light on big life lessons by blending humour and drama. The structure moves the present narrative whilst filling in the back story and ends just right.
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Helen Heckety retweeted
Thank you @lehenner for bringing us the unique, and wonderful Hattie and giving us a #book that those living with an #invisibledisability can see ourselves represented in which is sadly such a rarity. I resonated with the book and the struggles and frustrations Hattie faced.
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"Lionhearted in it’s exploration of disability and what it means to live with an indelible fate. Helen’s eloquent writing just hurts at times—but how it heals, too. ALTER EGO is a seriously funny and heartwarming book." @lehenner @dialoguepub 💗🛖🌲 ♿🥹 prettylittlememoirs.com/alte…
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Helen Heckety retweeted
Happy publication day to Alter Ego 💖 This unputdownable, hilarious and achingly relatable page-turner by @lehenner will break your heart, mend it anew and leave you with a smile on your face. Order now: dialoguebooks.co.uk/titles/h…
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Happy Disability Pride Month!! Tricky day yday as stranger asked out of blue what was 'wrong' with my legs & went on to tell me it's my fault, I'm 'lazy' and need to sit down less. After big cry I got home, sat on the floor and said "love you leggies" cos I really really do x
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‘I just didn’t see myself represented in literature at all’ Helen Heckety @lehenner joined @BBCNuala to speak about her debut novel and disability representation 🔽
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Alter Ego is the debut from Helen Heckety @lehenner 📗 It's the story of a woman who leaves her old life & moves to a new place where no one knows she has a disability. Helen joins @BBCNuala to talk about disability representation in literature & writing her debut novel 🔽
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Just under a month till Alter Ego is out! To really get this book out there it needs all the boost it can get so it can smash those ableist stereotypes! Anything you can do/have done: BIG THANKS. Also, am staying here, but X hurts my brain a bit so reminder I'm on insta @ helumbo
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This book is so special and we want everyone to read it! If the below particularly resonates, wave or DM and we’d love to send you a copy 💖
📣People of publishing!📣 If you work in the industry have a disability or a chronic illness, I have a book I’d love to send you. It’s Alter Ego by @lehenner – a vital story with a disabled lead, but also a total page-turner, genuinely hilarious, so moving packed with heart🩷
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Helen Heckety retweeted
📣People of publishing!📣 If you work in the industry have a disability or a chronic illness, I have a book I’d love to send you. It’s Alter Ego by @lehenner – a vital story with a disabled lead, but also a total page-turner, genuinely hilarious, so moving packed with heart🩷
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WOW 💓 A challenging, sad, profound & life-affirming debut that left me in tears, asking, ‘What can I do to change things?’ I wish there were more characters with disabilities in fiction - we need them 👏🏻 Thank you @Christina_Dem @lehenner @dialoguepub
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I am only 82 pages into this and I can already tell how important a book it's going to be. It's so refreshing to see a disabled protagonist, who isn't just a novelty or tick box exercise. Hattie is absolutely gorgeous! 📚Alter Ego @lehenner out in July @dialoguepub
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The blurb for @lehenner ‘s novel Alter Ego says “unputdownable” and having stayed up till 3am with it, can confirm. It’s out next month and it’s definitely one of my books of the year.
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Very exciting to see Alter Ego proofs out in the world. Thank you to everyone who has tweeted/messaged kind things. I really hope this book can make a difference. Out July 2024 @Christina_Dem @dialoguepub
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