e Beaver’s guide to 3 writers you need to know in 2023

by STEPHAN BALAC &

by LAMISA CHOWDHURY

e High Priestess of Smut’, as described by e Independent, has become a bastion for writers who have found their true calling later in life. Having published her rst seventeen novels in her breakout year at the age of 47, Synesthesia has used personal tragedy to fuel her work. In late 2020, as lockdown tightened its grip upon Britain and couples up and down the country felt their relationships strained, her late husband unexpectedly committed suicide by stabbing himself in the back six times with a carving fork, tying his hands together and jumping into the boot of his wife’s car. Such themes of darkness and romantic tragedy can be seen in her latest novel ‘Mary-Lou and the Big, Strapping Gamekeeper’, in which a small village Vicar’s daughter begins a passionate a air with an attractive new employee at the local country estate.

Reclaiming Valentine’s Day

by LONELY CAT LADY

Happy Valentine’s day, guys, gals, and non-binary pals!