Laura Gillespie
Author @Bloomsbury USA
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Author @Bloomsbury USA
Author of Exit (Bloomsbury, 2020) by Laura Waddell Exits are all around us. They are the difference between travelling and arriving, being on the inside or outside. Whether signposted or subversive, personal or political, choices or holes we\'ve fallen through, exits determine how we move around our lives, cities, and the world. What does it really mean to exit? In these meditations on exits in architecture, transport, ancestry, language, garbage, death, Sesame Street and Brexit, Laura Waddell follows the neon and the pictograms of exit signs to see what s on the other side.\"An incredible writer. Exit is a quite wondrous piece of writing, cleverly and movingly encouraging us to think of the ordinary in new and challenging ways. As it happens, I read this brilliant book while pondering what an \'exit\' from the coronavirus lockdown might look like, and the reminder that exits often lead to new and better beginnings was a welcome inspiration indeed.\"-Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland\"Roaming from Glasgow to Kowloon Walled City, Laura Waddell\'s Exit is deft, compelling and deep; revealing the extent to which the political is always personal. There are no simple escapes in these studies of exclusion, entrapment and exile yet Waddell proves in the persuasive empathy and acuity of her writing that it is possible to throw open our windows to light and sound from outside, elsewhere, one another.\"-Darran Anderson, author of Imaginary Cities and Inventory
EDUCATION
The University of Glasgow
Master of Letters (MLitt)
The University of Glasgow
Master of Arts (M.A. Hons)
ABOUT LAURA GILLESPIE
Writer working on my second book. Experienced senior publishing & media professional with…
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