STORYTELLING
An alumni of the selective ‘Writing Your Novel’ course by Curtis Brown Creative, Gabriel is currently working on her first novel which is set in Chile.
What i’m reading
Books I read in 2025:
Five Days of Fog - Anna Freeman
Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles (NOTHING LIKE GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW, BUT I ADORE TOWLES)
The Wind Knows My Name - Isabel Allende (READ EVERYTHING ALLENDE WRITES)
Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan (SHORT AND INTENSE)
Lady Susan - Jane Austen
Room on the Sea - Andre Aciman (LOVE ACIMAN, DRAWS ME IN)
My Name is Emilia del Valle - Isabel Allende
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Key - Junichiro Tanizaki (DYSTIOPIC BEAUTY)
A Room with a View - E.M. Foster (LOVED. ADORE THE FILM, FIRST TIME READING)
Free Love - Tessa Hadley (NEW FIND, HADLEY IMMEDIATELY AMONG FAVOURITE WRITERS)
Maurice - E.M. Foster (NOT A ROOM WITH A VIEW, BUT ENJOYABLE)
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett (SLOW AND RICH)
The Golden Hour - Kate Lord Brown (FAST AND ROMANTIC. WHIZZED THROUGH IT AND CRIED)
Cleopatra - Natasha Solomans (EGYPT TRIP READING, MORE ELEVATED THAN THE GOLDEN HOUR. VERY GOOD)
Just a Little Dinner - Cecile Tlili (READ IN ONE)
The Party - Tessa Hadley (AGAIN, HADLEY HITS THE SPOT)
The Wedding People - Alison Espach (LIGHT AND FUN. ENJOYABLE)
My Father’s Island - Johanna Angermeyer (GALAPAGOS TRIP READING. LOVED)
The Names - Florence Knapp (PAINFUL AND POWERFUL, STICKS WITH YOU)
Secrets of the Starlit Sea - Santa Montefiore (GRIPPING AND FUN)
Reading for 2026:
After the Party - Cressida Connolly (LOVED THIS, ABSORBING AND CHALLENGES YOUR ASSUMPTIONS. MY FIRST READ OF CONNOLLY, WON’T BE MY LAST)
The Artist - Lucy Steeds (BEAUTIFUL READ, MAKES YOU THINK ABOUT PLAGIARISM IN ART. ROMANTIC)
We are Here - David Nicholls (NICE BUT LIGHT AS A FEATHER, DRAWN OUT & PREDICTABLE WITHOUT FULL RESOLUTION AT END)
Mrs Collins - Rachel Parris (HIGH BAR FOR ME WITH P&P THEME, BUT PARRIS IS EXCELLENT. LOVED. THERE ARE PARTS WHEN I THOUGHT “THAT’S NOT HOW AUSTEN WOULD HAVE DONE IT, BUT PARRIS ISN”T AUSTEN. LOVED SPENDING MORE TIME WITH THE COLLINSES)
Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell (READING BEFORE WATCHING FILM)
Out of Egypt - André Aciman
A Far Cry from Kensington - Muriel Spark
Patria - Laurence Blair
