Things We Don't Talk About (But I Do)
Isolde WaltersPersonal essays about the things we don't talk about - money, sex, medication, loneliness, recovery, friendship and more. Honest writing delivered to your inbox in prose as pretty as I can make it.
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Notes on a breakup, from an oversharer
About three months ago, I wrote a very personal Substack. It was about someone breaking up with me. I sometimes regretted writing it. Shuddered when it came to mind. Why? Embarrassment probably, that exposed feeling. (Yet I am coming to the...
My Sense And Sensibility weekend
I write this from an armchair in the very room where Emma Thompson broke down in hysterical tears when Hugh Grant asked her to marry him.
Of course I am speaking of the moment in the seminal Ang Lee-directed Sense and Sensibility when Edwa...
Lily Allen and the soundtrack to heartbreak
Welp. Thank you so much for all the kind and wise words after I wrote about my breakup in the last Substack. But the prize for the best nugget of heartbreak consolation must go to my mother1.
I was weeping on the phone to her and my father...
A breakup and a return to Substack
Well, it only took a break-up to get me back on the orange app.
It happened on Monday on Blackfriars Bridge - très cinématique - after the death-knell message arrived just before lunch: can we meet up to talk?
I tried to fool myself that...
Seven years sober
Hello! I write this from South Africa, at an enchanting spa-farm (that famous hybrid) in Franschoek, a town about an hour outside of Cape Town. It's a place so verdant, so lush, so utterly almost-CGI picturesque, that my one and abiding tho...
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