Sally Flint

SAL FLINT

I’m not a fan of social media posts that suggest the writer’s life is perfect. I just don’t buy it! My blog, aims to show a middle-aged-mamma’s life – warts and all! If you enjoy a smile, chat and a cup of tea with a pal, I think my posts might be for you.


If you’ve been following a while, you’ll know that I love to read, so the main focus of my website has always been to share book reviews and book club questions. Nothing is about to change there – books are, after all, what keep me sane (ish!)

Ali Smith’s How to be both

Book Review of Ali Smith’s How to be both Challenging conventions of literary style and full of philosphical questions, Ali...

Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire

Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire is so deserving to be a previous winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction. It is...

Jeanine Cummins’ American Dirt

American Dirt wasn’t at all what I expected. A page turner that was also moving, powerful and important. Book Review...

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

I think this is my favourite all time classic. Book Review of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Set around the...

Delia Owen’s Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens has sold over 4 million copies of Where the Crawdads Sing, but I hadn’t even heard of it...

Deepa Anappara’s Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

In the afterword of Deepa Anappara’s Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, she shares how up to 180 children go...

Latest Blogs

The Power of Displays

Positive Classroom and Library Environments Displays are a very powerful tool in creating a positive classroom and library...

Embrace the Change

Embracing Change Saying goodbye is never easy Sometimes change can feel overwhelming, but a little bit of positivity can go a long...

FAST, FURIOUS and FEMINIST AT 50

My Porsche Driving Experience My dad trying out the porsche I’ve decided that part of embracing change entails embracing...

Tiger Mum or Alley Cat?

Tiger Parent or Alley Cat? I was having an on-line catch up with a teacher friend the other evening and asked her what her holiday...

Goodbyes as an Art Form

Saying Goodbye Nowadays I seem to spend half of my life saying goodbye, either to friends and family in Bangkok and Broughton, or...

Small Kindnesses

This week I’ve been on the receiving end of loads of small kindnesses. My lovely mum found me an umbrella for me to take shopping...

Mums (and Dads) and Maths’ Anxiety

Helping Children with Maths Anxiety I was listening to Jenni Murray exploring Maths’ anxiety in a parenting...

Emotional? Me? Not Likely.

Last Day of School I’ve just returned home from dropping my youngest daughter, Betsy, and husband off at school. I only went...

‘Wannabe’ Influencer?

This is what you look like to be an influencer! Being an Influencer I’ve been learning what an ‘influencer’ is.  According to...

Reading Quotes and Quizzes

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