Lily Bailey 💯

I also notice stay at home parents — including carers for chronically ill disabled children & then adult children — also have no value in the eyes of Tory UK.

Lily Bailey Yup. I've had 3 long periods (over 1 year, max 7) where I haven't been able to work due to depression/anxiety. I'd have loved to have been in work, earning a wage. Thanks, Rishi, for basically saying I don't deserve dignity and security because my brain f'ed up.

Next up, by Lily Bailey the Adrien Prize winner, ‘When I see BLUE’!

Thank you to Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚 & the The Adrien Prize for sharing this book…I can’t wait!!

Lily Bailey This! A billion times. It’s also so hard to find your identity if you can’t work in a society that places value on tangible achievements.

Your worth should not be tied to your ability to work. A great many people cannot work either for periods or permanently because of disability and illness, to suggest they don’t deserve the same security and dignity is deeply ableist

For the United Kingdom to recognise the state of Palestine immediately
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I think about this often. But what scares me is that some people seem to be increasingly desensitised to violence and tragedy as it becomes the accepted norm when it comes to certain lives and parts of the world.

The writerly urge to reward yourself with a toilet break when you meet an arbitrary word count

To be shortlisted with you Thomas Leeds 🏳️‍🌈, hux | lizzie huxley-jones 🍟📚 and Patience Agbabi has been such an honour #AdrienPrize

Enormously pleased and proud to have taken part in this with such a great shortlist! 📚 Huge thanks of course to our young readers and to Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚 for making it possible!

I’m so chuffed to see this. I’ve got so much love for this book, and it’s sequel. Extremely readable and with characters you truly get to understand and care about. I hope winning the Adrien Prize helps get it into the hands of lots of new readers. Congratulations Lily Bailey!

I’ve been really struggling with both my mental health (OCD up the wall) and confidence lately. This is such an incredible boost that it’s hard to get a sentence out about it. Thank you everyone at The Adrien Prize, this means more than I can say

WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!

the winner of the 2024 The Adrien Prize is........🥁🥁🥁🥁

WHEN I SEE BLUE BY Lily Bailey !!

our young judges were brilliant this year and it was a close race. thank you, St George's Library and St George's School, Edinburgh for deciding our winner!!

judges comments below:

What an absolute privilege it has been to have been shortlisted alongside such brilliant other authors hux | lizzie huxley-jones 🍟📚, Thomas Leeds 🏳️‍🌈 and Patience Agabi, all of whom are also authors I massively respect and admire. Brb going to have a little cry. I wasn’t expecting this today

Lily Bailey Does feeling ill or well feel the same?. Perhaps on my best day I only feel as well as you feel all the time. Or vice versa. But I can't really compare this or whether you and I see green as the same thing. If we could swap bodies for 10 minutes I think we would be amazed.

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