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May 10, 2013
May 10, 2013
Susie Boyt: William Brown, my hero
More and more, it seems pointless to try to persuade people to believe what you believe
May 3, 2013
Susie Boyt: A show fit for a good long run
My running friend tells me that the watch words these days are ‘interval training’
Apr 26, 2013
Susie Boyt: Sowing the sewing seeds
Home-made clothes used to be your choice if there was no choice. These days some 12-year-olds construct their own jeans and boast about it
Apr 19, 2013
Susie Boyt: a buffet breakfast challenge
It is impossible not to approach the HBB as a metaphor, for surely the way we eat is the way we live
Apr 12, 2013
Susie Boyt: The right impression
It’s horrible to be summed up. It never feels good when someone says, ‘This is SO you’
Apr 5, 2013
Grown up too fast
You can’t just heap praise on people’s heads – there are rules about that sort of thing
Mar 29, 2013
Never a bridesmaid
I wasn’t approached until my 30s and then, on the day, suffered from horrible flu and had to miss the whole thing
Mar 15, 2013
My interference gene awakes ...
Sometimes it is necessary to wade into muddied moral waters to ensure the greater good
Mar 8, 2013
Groping for standards
Eccentrics are like that, we tried to tell ourselves. Important men will always bend the rules. Maybe we’ve just no sense of humour
Mar 1, 2013
Rose-pink and Manet’s Morisot
To children, a person without favourites is a person without qualities
Feb 15, 2013
The bittersweet taste of cabaret
Good actors turn songs into episodes in the history of romance, deepening our understanding of human nature
Feb 8, 2013
Let’s sing our children’s praises
It seems against the current fashion, but where’s the harm in lauding the young ones for their achievements?
Feb 1, 2013
How to say sorry with style
Getting out of things stylishly isn’t easy to master and not all problems can be excused as a ‘domestic crisis’
Jan 18, 2013
The charm of dirty food
It is what the young and gorgeous eat when painting the town, the dining equivalent of sticking two fingers up at the world
Jan 11, 2013
A teacup in a storm
A family’s startling bereavement practices show a different way of approaching grief
Dec 21, 2012
Christmas on an even keel
‘I was wildly festive, fizzing with the season like a tree in a house with dodgy wiring’
ABOUT SUSIE
Susie Boyt writes a column on shopping for the FT Weekend supplement. She is a novelist and lives in London.
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Commercial Analyst
Vitol
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Director - Prudential Regulation
AFME - Prudential Regulation Division
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Director of Finance
Raven Housing
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Susie Boyt: Why I’m wild about the city
I am completely urban: I like traffic, litter, cafés, bus lanes, protest marches, caffeine and alcohol