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Flora Baker

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Flora Baker is a freelance travel writer, blogger and copywriter. She runs the award-winning website 'Flora The Explorer', where she writes about her travels in over fifty countries, and has written for a range of publications including The Independent, Telegraph, National Geographic Traveller, Coastal Living, and Hello.

She now lives in London, UK, along with her parents’ overflowing bookshelves, a growing collection of houseplants and an adopted cat named Olive.

Flora's first book, 'The Adult Orphan Club: How I Learned to Grieve the Loss of My Parents' draws on a decade of personal experience, and is a moving and honest guide to the grief process.

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2020 Reading Challenge: The Year of All The Books

Ah, 2020. What a strange year for reading.

Once the pandemic hit, the local library became one of my most visited (and only) destinations, and I coveted my pile of loaned books like treasure whenever a new lockdown caused the library to close. I regularly scrolled Amazon’s kindle deal page, joined my first ever book club – which, three books later, has still only taken place on Zoom – and managed t

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The Adult Orphan Club: How I Learned to Grieve the Loss of My Parents

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)

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