Author, teacher, editor. From Norwich, live in Bath (I like a pretty city) Novels The Marsh House (2022) and The Night of the Flood (2020). zoesomerville.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/zoesomerville.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/zoesomerville.bsky.social/post/3m4qdn6hz5226How is that possible?! One of my favourite places ever! [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Nov 2025 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:jiphmphu55llcb7yzqemn7xu/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4qdn6hz5226https://bsky.app/profile/zoesomerville.bsky.social/post/3m4qdmbpwqs26I'm about to turn 50 & I'm not feeling 100% jolly about it. Mostly because I am really keen to find a home for my fourth novel. I'm out on sub to a few agents but who knows? In the meantime, does anyone know of any small presses that are open to submissions? It's a dark love story set in the 50s!03 Nov 2025 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:jiphmphu55llcb7yzqemn7xu/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4qdmbpwqs26https://bsky.app/profile/zoesomerville.bsky.social/post/3m46homb3c226Always [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Oct 2025 12:55 +0000at://did:plc:jiphmphu55llcb7yzqemn7xu/app.bsky.feed.post/3m46homb3c226https://bsky.app/profile/zoesomerville.bsky.social/post/3lwty2c4cbs27So, I've been off Bluesky for a while, no particular reason, and now I've been without a working phone for *counts on fingers* three days and I feel cut off from the world! On the plus side, I read the (nearly) entire of Alan Hollinghurst's Our Evenings on the train back from our holiday!20 Aug 2025 17:42 +0000at://did:plc:jiphmphu55llcb7yzqemn7xu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwty2c4cbs27https://bsky.app/profile/zoesomerville.bsky.social/post/3ltf6gvn64227Really interesting thread on the ramifications of the #SaltPath debacle 👇 [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Jul 2025 16:11 +0000at://did:plc:jiphmphu55llcb7yzqemn7xu/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltf6gvn64227https://bsky.app/profile/zoesomerville.bsky.social/post/3lsvqhrdqbk2aIs anyone listening to the R4 Postwar series? It's brilliant but also so relevant to today: the beginning of the Welfare State, the United Nations, the Cold War... @bbcsounds.bsky.social01 Jul 2025 12:51 +0000at://did:plc:jiphmphu55llcb7yzqemn7xu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsvqhrdqbk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/zoesomerville.bsky.social/post/3lsjazxhkpc2iWe can't afford it. So the solution is, really, to pay more taxes. But no one wants to admit this. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Jun 2025 13:43 +0000at://did:plc:jiphmphu55llcb7yzqemn7xu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsjazxhkpc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/zoesomerville.bsky.social/post/3lsiv7zvdbk2gWhy are new writing competitions cropping up right now when there are so many submissions from proven writers? I guess it's a quickish way to find new debuts. Debuts are, by definition, new, so can be presented as shiny rather than tarnished. I suspect that it's also a good way to make some money.26 Jun 2025 10:12 +0000at://did:plc:jiphmphu55llcb7yzqemn7xu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsiv7zvdbk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/zoesomerville.bsky.social/post/3ls2w66lbcs2jMidsummer round here: tits in the birdbox, first ever cherries and a massive moth...which, it turns out, is called a Cockchafer 😳. AKA a MayBug. It's all kicking off round here.20 Jun 2025 20:51 +0000at://did:plc:jiphmphu55llcb7yzqemn7xu/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls2w66lbcs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/zoesomerville.bsky.social/post/3lrxyki5hgk2uOf course I am making a chocolate birthday cake on the hottest day of the year and the oven is on. 🥵19 Jun 2025 16:56 +0000at://did:plc:jiphmphu55llcb7yzqemn7xu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrxyki5hgk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/zoesomerville.bsky.social/post/3lrppjwoowc2qCahokia Jazz, my third Francis Spufford. He's incredible! [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Jun 2025 09:53 +0000at://did:plc:jiphmphu55llcb7yzqemn7xu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrppjwoowc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/zoesomerville.bsky.social/post/3lrizp53tkc24I am so happy that Andrew Miller has won this prize. He is a genius writer. And I love The Land in Winter, it's a beautiful book. [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Jun 2025 18:07 +0000at://did:plc:jiphmphu55llcb7yzqemn7xu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrizp53tkc24