About Triangulated
Triangulated is a series of short stories featuring characters from my first novel by the same name (unpublished). Set predominantly at university in Bristol, with London and the countryside in between, each story is connected to Lily and Miles, the protagonists of the core love story. Yet the series seeks to dispel this simplified model for the world by exploring alternative framings through different characters, pulling at the threads of other plots that unfold.
The series ultimately seeks to explore the notion that each of us is an irrational being with competing feelings and desires, and to examine how one character’s actions can have an impact on those around them, mirroring the complexity of real life.
About Me
Why
My fondest memories are of making up worlds with sticks on dog walks and being read to as a child.
‘The Wind in the Willows’ was top of the list, inspiring the name of our home.
Of all the characters we came to love, Mole was my favourite - in his smart little suit.
But life took over and my passion was lost.
Looking for answers I read ‘The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse’.
There I met another mole in a little blue suit, his attitude for life infecting my own, and soon I had written a book.
I write to speak to the child in me - the one trying to navigate the adult world.
To make sense of memories, thoughts and feelings, conversations that never occurred.
To write about all the irrational things that make us human beings.
Who
I’m 28, based in London, and alongside writing this series and other ideas, I am currently working in communications and branding. Triangulated is challenging to define in terms of genre, but if it was on a bookshelf, I would position the stories between the bittersweet romance found in titles including Normal People by Sally Rooney and The Trio by Johanna Hedman, and the darker realism of university life in books such as The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton-Ellis.
Growing up around books was the greatest gift I could have ever received. I am not planning to charge for the initial publication of this series, so if you enjoy reading them, I would encourage you to donate to my chosen charity, Bookmark, so that more children can experience the joy that reading can bring, as well as many other incredibly important benefits.