Harriet Lane

👀 #AlysAlways

@sophiehannahCB1 This is so lovely — thrilled you enjoyed. YES YES I like books that leave space for the reader to make up her own mind—feels luxurious. I get bored/restless when I’m spoonfed

@HarrietLane_ Adored it & now loving Alys, Always. What I love most is the way you show people doing their (fascinating) thing, and let us draw our own conclusions. It makes me realise how many books bash us over their head with what we’re supposed to think!

Francis Wheen picks OPF as one of his Books of the Year in the Spectator

A Tale of Toxic Friendship, With a Midlife Mean-Girl Twist nytimes.com/2025/11/04/boo… via @NYTimes

@LissaKEvans Thank you Lissa — I’m tremendously annoyed with myself as I’d purchased Small Bomb x3 from the Owl but in the excitement of meeting you forgot to ask you to sign them. Hopeless.

Happy publication day (yesterday, actually!) for 'Other People's Fun' by @HarrietLane_ . I found this chilling and witty revenge drama completely unputdownable - it skewers social media and has a denouement that still makes me squawk with horrified laughter.

@JoannaCannon @wnbooks Jo this is so lovely of you, thank you for remembering me! Hoping @wnbooks can send you a copy

If you've been to one of my events and I've talked about writing, you'll have heard me reference @HarrietLane_ because her words are *world class*. I've just discovered Harriet has a new novel out with @wnbooks at the end of this month and I am BESIDE MYSELF. I just know this is going to be magnificent.

Very early reviews for Other People’s Fun (the i paper, Grazia, Red)

@annecater @wnbooks Thank you. Anne—you were so supportive of my first two books—so happy this one worked for you too

Other People's Fun by Harriet Lane #OtherPeoplesFun @HarrietLane_ @wnbooks #BookReview …thingsthroughmyletterbox.blogspot.com/2025/09/other-…

V happy to see Other People’s Fun in the NYT’s fiction preview: 27 Novels Coming This Fall nytimes.com/2025/09/04/boo… via @NYTimes

@AmandaPCraig @BBCFrontRow @tds153 @TATFS Yes a really enjoyable review Thursday. Smart + knowledgeable guests expertly shepherded by @tds153

Extra good @BBCFrontRow with @tds153 @TATFS - Alien Earth, The Materialists and John Burnside’s posthumous book of poetry. A pleasure to listen to.

@LissaKEvans @AmandaPCraig And when Small Bomb ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ comes out in ppbk in a fortnight I’m filling my boots/present cupboard — can’t think of a person who wouldn’t love this book

@AmandaPCraig @HarrietLane_ Thank you, Amanda - and I too absolutely loved Harriet's book.

Small Bomb At Dimperley by @LissaKEvans and @HarrietLane_ forthcoming other People’s Fun.

@booksellercrow @gillybethstern I also remember that lunch v fondly. Back in the Golden Age of Twitter

@gillybethstern @HarrietLane_ I’m very much looking forward to this and remember sitting next to Harriet at a lunch you gave and the interesting conversation we had, a long time ago. #lasagne

@gillybethstern Oh I am SO GLAD

@HarrietLane_ I absolutely LOVED your new novel @HarrietLane_

Pre-order bargain, link to follow

@Matineegirl @wnbooks @AoifeDatta Hope it works for you…

I did a squeal when I opened this! I am a huge fan of @HarrietLane_’s first two books so am over the moon to see this!! Coming in October from @wnbooks Thank you thank you @AoifeDatta

Rob battering Henry with a squeaky sunflower in a soft-play ballpit—one of the all-time great fight scenes #Industry

Did Starmer just say a return of the sausages?!

@Alison_Edits You’ve sold it to me too

Just handsold the book of Starve Acre to a horror loving colleague who is off to our local Waterstones this lunchtime to pick up a copy. Hope I haven't given her nightmares.

How did I only just learn there is an adaptation coming of the amazing Starve Acre and it's coming out next week?! Who fancies babysitting my charming three year old so I can go and truly terrify myself? bfi.org.uk/bfi-film-relea…

Crikey that was awful #newsnight