Things We Don't Talk About (But I Do)

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Personal essays about the things we don't talk about - money, sex, medication, loneliness, recovery, friendship and more. Honest writing delivered to your inbox in prose as pretty as I can make it.

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About Isolde Walters

Journalist with writing in The Times, The Telegraph, The Evening Standard, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The New York Post... all the biggies baby!

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