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Gail Aldwin

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Novelist, poet and scriptwriter, Gail Aldwin has been writing for over a decade. Her first two coming-of-age novels where shortlisted in the Dorchester Literary Festival Writing Prize 2020 and 2022. Gail was awarded a creative writing PhD in 2018 and still laughs whenever she’s called Doctor Gail. She has appeared at Bridport Literary Festival, Stockholm Writers Festival and the Mani Lit Fest in Greece. Gail’s dual timeline mystery will be published by Bloodhound Books in July 2023. When at home, Gail writes by a window overlooking water meadows in Dorset.

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	The Secret Life of Carolyn Russell 3.87 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Over the past few years, Sarah Scally, Maria Pruden and I (writing as 3-She) have had short plays and comedy sketches staged at venues in Dorchester, Bridport, Salisbury, Shaftesbury and Brighton. This year, our work again appears as part of the scriptwriting festival The Script’s The Thing in Dorchester. Instead of performing ourselves (as we did in 2025 – when we appeared as bumblebees in a coll

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Gail Aldwin wrote a new blog post Half Baked Over the past few years, Sarah Scally, Maria Pruden and I (writing as 3-She) have had short plays and comedy sketches staged at venues in Dorchester, Read more of this blog post »
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