Lara Feigel

Look! Here it is! Please! Preorder it! waterstones.com/book/look-we-h…

Moved to return to Twitter to repost this really important story - we need to hear more from the children who survive forced transfers of residence by the family courts.

It’s rare that we get to hear directly from the young people caught in the middle of family court disputes. So it was a privilege to interview Dylan* about his six-year separation from his mother after an unregulated psychologist advised she'd 'alienated' him from his father. 🧵

“She didn’t identify her children, ex-partner, the judge or the court,” she said. Proudman says the law’s insistence on a blanket ban on anyone involved in the case discussing the details clashes with Feigel’s right to voice her own experience. She believes the legal threats from Feigel’s ex-husband were “a tactic akin to control” and “an attempt to harm Lara Feigel’s reputation and career.”

Why Prof Lara Feigel’s book on mothers battling for custody was destroyed – not once, but twice. Charlotte Proudman is a family court barrister who has campaigned for modernisation in the family courts. “The offending passage in Lara Feigel’s book consisted of three sentences where she described the arguments used by her ex-husband’s barrister in court.” observer.co.uk/news/national/…

A 'great roar of a book' Fantastic review of @LaraFeigel CUSTODY by Kathryn Hughes @WmCollinsBooks thetimes.com/culture/books/…

(1/5) We want to take a moment to mark the release of @LaraFeigel’s new book, Custody: The Secret History of Mothers — a powerful work that brings child custody out of the shadows and into public conversation.

Congratulations @LaraFeigel - CUSTODY is out today! 🧑‍🍼 We think that our children belong to us, but families are fragile things... This book is of urgent interest to anyone concerned with women’s roles in the world and how institutions fail them.

Huge kudos to @LaraFeigel who has fought to have her book about the family courts published in the face of constraints from the very system she is holding up to scrutiny. Looking forward to reading my copy! tinyurl.com/wnk2wxma

@louisetickle @hansummers @ChrismdBarnes @tortoise Such devastating reading. But horribly believable.

3 sets of family court proceedings preceded the murder of Sara Sharif by her father + stepmother: as soon as we had an inkling, @hansummers and I with incredible pro bono support from @ChrismdBarnes applied for the court documents. Our story for @tortoise tortoisemedia.com/2024/12/11/sar…

Are you a non-fiction writer? Then don't miss your last chance to sign up for this online course with @LaraFeigel who will delve into #writing history, biography & memoir, covering voice, idea development, scene & character as you tell your story. Book: writersandartists.co.uk/events-and-cou…

Starting soon!

Is there a story you’d love to tell? Join award-winning writer @LaraFeigel on 5th Nov-3rd Dec to delve into essential elements of the writing craft, & get insight into the non-fiction book market and what makes a book proposal stand out. Book now: writersandartists.co.uk/events-and-cou…

In our winter non-fiction #writing course @LaraFeigel will help you identify and tell your story, cover writing history, biography and memoir, and going from how to start your story to how to present it in a book proposal. Join us 5th Nov-3rd Dec: writersandartists.co.uk/events-and-cou…

In our non-fiction course with @LaraFeigel students will explore how to develop an initial idea into a story; how to craft scenes & characters using the techniques of the novel; & how to develop a voice both as a memoirist & a storyteller. Book now: writersandartists.co.uk/events-and-cou…

These will be brilliant!

@JuliaArmfield I'm v glad to hear it - I really loved reading it and having the chance to think it through properly - it has so many layers and depths - I hope it has a happy life out in the world and to cross paths one day!

this is the kind of dream review that not only engages with the novel so generously and on its own terms but also actively gives me new things to think about - so deeply grateful to you @LaraFeigel 💫

I reviewed @JuliaArmfield 's incandescent, v moving, v watery new novel, which finds a way to imagine climate crisis without being apocalyptic (and is a v clever take on Lear)

@johnpaulstonard But that isn’t what we are fulminating against! Surely you don’t think this is a good outcome??

To all those fulminating against the 'righteous' activists, 'saving the planet', the only question is - what are you doing which is better?

@KatyaTaylor great!

'By tangling explicitly with reality across mediums she pushes autofiction to new limits, revealing how good this genre is at questioning reality. How can the narrator make her own peculiarities part of a lived life?' I fell for Miranda July. theguardian.com/books/article/…