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"Affectionately dubbed ""the Jewel in the Crown of the Tetbury Advertiser"" by its ever-patient editor, Debbie Young has been a regular columnist for this award-winning community magazine since 2010. In its ten issues per year, she shares her homespun philosophy and wry English humour with its loyal readers. This collection brings together her columns from 2010-2015, charting history in the making as it affects local residents, and giving her whimsical perspective on the wider world from the heart of the Cotswolds"

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"""Debbie Young's fascination with her Cotswold universe is appealing and evocative. This gifted essayist's concerns are of subtle yet significant interest, and I found that ""Young by Name"", her collection of essays published in the Tetbury Advertiser during the last five years, was completely engrossing... A female Sir Roger de Coverley in miniature, whose development the reader follows throughout the five years the essays cover. Life in the Cotswold village of Hawkesbury Upton and the impact that national events and celebrations have upon that microcosm is faithfully recorded, painted in Debbie Young's humorous, colourful and gentle fashion. The essays are charming examples of this type of literature. It is gratifying that the essayist is not an obsolete dinosaur. Debbie Young is a subtle and perceptive exponent of the art which, given her literary skills, is very much alive."" - Celia Boyd, author of ""A Reason from the Stars"" series of historical novels; ""The Jewel in the Crown of the Tetbury Advertiser"" - Richard Smith, Editor"

Debbie Young's fascination with her Cotswold universe is appealing and evocative. This gifted essayist's concerns are of subtle yet significant interest, and I found that Young by Name , her collection of essays published in the Tetbury Advertiser during the last five years, was completely engrossing... A female Sir Roger de Coverley in miniature, whose development the reader follows throughout the five years the essays cover. Life in the Cotswold village of Hawkesbury Upton and the impact that national events and celebrations have upon that microcosm is faithfully recorded, painted in Debbie Young's humorous, colourful and gentle fashion. The essays are charming examples of this type of literature. It is gratifying that the essayist is not an obsolete dinosaur. Debbie Young is a subtle and perceptive exponent of the art which, given her literary skills, is very much alive. - Celia Boyd, author of A Reason from the Stars series of historical novels; The Jewel in the Crown of the Tetbury Advertiser - Richard Smith, Editor

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"Debbie Young writes warm, witty, feelgood fiction and non-fiction inspired by life in the Cotswold village where she lives with her husband and daughter. Her new Sophie Sayers Village Mystery series launches in 2017 with ""Best Murder in Show"", the first in a cycle of cosy contemporary mystery novels that will run the course of a village year. She also writes writing short stories, publishing a new themed collection each year. Her stories also feature in many anthologies. She also often performs her stories at spoken word events, such as the Cheltenham Literature Festival, the Evesham Festival of Words and Stroud Short Stories. She is founder and director of the Hawkesbury Upton Literature Festival and reviews editor for Vine Leaves Literary Journal. She is a regular guest on BBC Radio Gloucestershire's Book Club and various community radio stations. She is an ambassador for the British children's reading charity Readathon and for the Type 1 diabetes research charity JDRF. For more information about the author, please visit her website: www.authordebbieyoung.com."

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