Hello, I’m Mary, a London-based women’s fiction author. I began The Quack in 2022 during my MA at Oxford Brookes to keep me writing, and well, I haven’t stopped.
When I’m not Quacking, I’m writing contemporary romance novels. I am rep’d by Northbank Talent. My debut novel, Amy Elman Doesn’t Feel Sexy, is coming out in January 2026. You can preorder it now on Amazon.
The German translation is under the title This Isn’t Happiness, and is out now in Germany. You can it order now.
I Love…
Books (this list is forever changing): Green Dot Madeleine Gray, Standard Deviation Katherine Heiny, Cleopatra and Frankenstein Coco Mellors, Breakfast at Tiffany’s Truman Capote, About a Boy Nick Hornby, Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens, Prep Curtis Sittenfeld, The Wrong Boy Willy Russell, Tess of the D’urbervilles Thomas Hardy, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith, Expectations Anna Hope, One Day David Nicholls. American Wife Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy Curtis Sittenfeld. Daisy Jones and the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid.
Films/TV: Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, The Godfather, Breakfast at Tiffany’s When Harry Met Sally, Whiplash, Boyhood, Succession, Girls, Derry Girls, White Lotus, Jojo Rabbit, The Graduate, American Beauty, Wayne’s World, Cinema Paradiso, Toy Story, On the Waterfront, Cleopatra, A Streetcar Named Desire, Annie Hall, Educating Rita.
Other things: Coffee, stand-up, voice notes from Sausage, old Hollywood, photography, Maggie Rogers, quirky artwork, opera, scrolling through Sézane, theatre, Lucky Saint, Marlon Brando, spas, listening to music…(88,647 minutes in 2024)
I’m not good at competitive sports, playing musical instruments, maths, sewing, baking or dancing.
Say hi to me on @marynewnhamwrites
or
MaryNewnhamWrites@Gmail.com
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