Hope Estella WhitmoreOn toddlers, and being a noticerIn The Secret Detectives by Ella Risbridger, best known for Midnight Chicken, the heroine Isobel Petty is ‘a noticer.’ She doesn’t have a…3 min read·Feb 14, 2024----
Hope Estella Whitmoreremind me (poem for David.)when I am snotty faced with piggy tears,2 min read·Oct 22, 2021----
Hope Estella WhitmoreNarnia, a love poem‘But do you really mean, Sir, that there could be other worlds all over the place, just around the corner, like that?’ — C.S. Lewis, The…2 min read·Aug 1, 2021----
Hope Estella WhitmorePeople who helped me across the roadAround this time last year, I developed Dromophobia, an irrational and total terror of crossing the road. It came from nowhere. A van…5 min read·Jul 31, 2021----
Hope Estella WhitmoreGlad ragsOne day, when I was seventeen our neighbour Liz,2 min read·May 18, 2021----
Hope Estella WhitmoreWalking StickI own an electric eel-blue walking stick, or a walking stick I thought was the colour of electric eels until I Googled them just now, and…6 min read·Apr 16, 2021----
Hope Estella WhitmoreOn not writing my bookTen weeks ago I spoke on the phone to a new agent, a lovely, kind, warm agent, who seemed less intimidating than the last agent, except…6 min read·Feb 4, 2021----
Hope Estella WhitmoreThe Summer GhostWhen I was nineteen, my parents moved out of the squat little cottage I’d grown up in. It was owned by an estate, and they wanted to turn…6 min read·Oct 29, 2020----