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Insomnia

excited chatterings of wide awake mind pleading nay begging to sleep seconds then minutes then hours tick by lost any hope counting sheep...

Leah Quinn

Dec 7, 20181 min read

TW: drug abuse, suicide Written by Polly Stenham and directed by Carrie Cracknell, Julie is the electric new adaptation of August...

Leah Quinn

Oct 12, 20184 min read

Winner of 2016 Writers’ Guild Award for Best Radio Comedy for her hit BBC Radio 4 series Rolls the Dice Edinburgh Fringe regular,...

Leah Quinn

Sep 30, 20185 min read

TW: sexual abuse/statutory rape I don’t know how to feel about my first reading of Nabokov. I should probably give you some context. So,...

Leah Quinn

Sep 18, 20185 min read

TW: alcoholism, suicide, mental health, child abuse Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is not my usual reading material,...

Leah Quinn

Aug 25, 20184 min read

I fell in love with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s snappy, artistic language when I first read The Great Gatsby in my first year of sixth form,...

Leah Quinn

Aug 4, 20185 min read

I left the Harold Pinter Theatre last week feeling rejuvenated, impassioned and little confused. Consent the 2017 play by Nina Raine has...

Leah Quinn

Jul 5, 20185 min read

Directed by Rufus Norris, the National Theatre Live’s latest adaptation of Macbeth chimes eerily like a funeral toll and bumps in the...

Leah Quinn

Jun 26, 20184 min read

TW: rape I remember reading Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale when I was sixteen. That was only four years ago but I remember thinking it was...

Leah Quinn

Jun 14, 20184 min read