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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tomorrow / Sunday 4th I’m at Portobello Book Festival with this luscious gang. Tickets are free and can be scooped up from Porty Library. There are only a few left so seek them out and come thrum our way. 💛🖤🩵💙💜

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This week’s update. Celebrated with one of my favourite author’s RF Kuang (who was so lush about Muckle Flugga) and my sister got a new kitten – so new to the world he’s currently unnamed. It’s looking like Christopher, Paulie, or Toni (a Sopranos theme). 💚💜💛

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Muckle Flugga is out today in Spanish 🇪🇸 as La isla final with the superb Mapa. We’ll be launching on the 14/10 in Madrid and the 16/10 in Barcelona ¡Mamá, es mi libro en español 😭 🖤💛🖤💛. 📚: www.editorialmapa.com/products/la-...

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We are launching this gorgeous wee book ‘Ten Poems about Edinburgh’ this Wednesday 9th September at Waterstones Princes Street. Readings from Janette Ayachi, Marjorie Lotfi, and me. Plus words for Edinburgh UNESCO City of Lit. Come thrum our way. 🎟️: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ten-poems-...

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Edinburgh! We have just announced Cold Turkey #9 – with Hollie McNish, Withered Hand, Ivo Graham, Gemma Cairney, & me. At Assembly Roxy on 03/12. The tickets are already absolutely zooming 💫💚❤️💚❤️. 🎫: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cold-turke...

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

@edbookfest.bsky.social is now open 🎉! Here’s the fabulous thrust of my shows. They’re on 23rd, 27th and 29th August. 💜💚👩🏼‍🎤🧑🏼‍🎤💚💜. The number of literary beacons I’m sharing stages with is feather fluttering 💫💫💫 🎫: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I’m reading at @latitudefestival.bsky.social today at 15:55 alongside the ace Jan Carson. Come all you lexical butter churners and dandelion whisperers. Then we can all go watch Self Esteem and Lewis Capaldi 💚💜💛.

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

‘Muckle Flugga is an anthem for the summer’ @thetimes.com. Awwww, a thrill supreme to see Muckle Flugga recommended in The Times by the truly glorious Jaffe and Neal Bookshop. Long live the indies and their brigade of brilliant booksellers. My humungous thanks! 💚💛💚💛

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Aberdeenshire beauties I’m coming to Banchory on 1st August! Anyone you can send our way would be soooo lushly appreciated – friends or lovers, exes or aunties. Love rockets 🚀💖. 🎟️: thebarnarts.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

ᴛᴇɴ ᴘᴏᴇᴍs ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴇᴅɪɴʙᴜʀɢʜ has arrived – I had the supreme thrill of editing this stunning wee anthology for Candlestick Press. Ft: Norman MacCaig, Jackie Kay, Edwin Morgan, Robert Louis Stevenson, Marjorie Lotfi, Hollie McNish, Janette Ayachi, me, & more. www.candlestickpress.co.uk/pamphlet/ten...

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

𝘉𝘰𝘺 𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 came out 4 years back (July 2022) and has very much changed the currents of my life. I am so grateful for aw the soppy splendour it’s brought my way. To the dreamboats who read it or gifted it to those they love, thank you – you have giving it value beyond what I thought possible 🥹

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

💜 29th June 2012 🐇 This was Scott Hutchison’s first performance at Neu! Reekie! (a night I used to run with chums). I loved him then and I love him still 💚.

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Tickets for these two glorious @edbookfest.bsky.social shows in August are now live. Find me alongside the likes of Hollie McNish, Douglas Stuart, Gordon Buchanan, & beauties beyond. 23/08 www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/the-c... 29/08: www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/micha...

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I’m The Sunday Poem in today’s Observer New Review with a bespoke illustration by the ace Chris Riddell. You can gulp it back all inky or swatch it online: observer.co.uk/culture/book...

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I’ve a new poem in Sunday’s Observer New Review with a bespoke illustration to boot. Here it is in emoji form first: 🏊‍♀️ 🦅 ✈️ 🌊 ⛰️ 🐐 🐶 🥎

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

London this glorious beast is tonight – The Dead Bard Supper Society. A summoning of the ghost of Robert Louis Stevenson (with readings) plus a luscious three course meal by a fancy chef. All at the sublime Bard Books. 💜 📚💚👻 🏴‍☠️ 🎟️ : www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dead-bard-...

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

💙🤍❤️ Voila, my very first French translation: 𝗟𝗲 𝗣𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗲 𝗹’𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 (The Impossible Lighthouse). You better believe I was summoned over to Paris to pose by the Seine. 📚 This stunning edition will be published by the sublime Buchet Chastel on 27th August. 📚 www.buchetchastel.fr/catalogue/le...

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

DUNBAR * LONDON * NORTH BERWICK * LATITUDE * ABERDEENSHIRE 💛 Yes, I’m supposed to be on a writing break over June & July but, you know, sometimes lush things happen and new shows spiral out / bluebells thrusting up in floral defiance of their concrete overlords. 🎫 www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Yikes! 𝘔𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘦 𝘍𝘭𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 and it’s truly changed the orbit of my being. A veritable riptide of thanks & gratitude to everyone who has read it, recommended it, shared a post or come to an event. What a gorgeous gaggle of humans I’ve got to quest with along the way. 🩵💛💙💖💜🩷💚🖤🤍❤️🧡 🌊💫✨

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Hearing that Muckle Flugga has been shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards just rang my heart like a bell 🔔💖. Humungous thanks to all the brilliant booksellers and lush indies that championed Muckle Flugga and hosted me along the tour run – I will swoon your way forever. 💛💜💚🤎💙🧡🩵

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I’m off to the skies for a month long tour of Australia & New Zealand. Send lovers & friends, exes & aunties my way please. Melbourne, Wellington, Auckland, Sydney, Brisbane / I’m repping all my books & tendernesses beyond 💚🩵💜. 🎟️ : www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Muckle Flugga is the Scottish Book of the Month at the glorious @blackwells.bsky.social 💙🩵🤍. Look out for our zesty stacks in Edinburgh & Aberdeen (& beyond). Plus I’ve an event to celebrate at Blackwells Edinburgh come 29/04 (chaired by Gordon Buchanan). 🎟️ : www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/michael-pe...

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

A thrill to be on @arte.tv’s leading culture show TWIST. This has already gone out on TV in France & Germany (in French & German) and is now available to catch up on their arte player. I got to talk Muckle Flugga / Der letzte Leuchtturm and soppy male friendship. 📺 www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The Muckle Flugga paperback is out now. Here’s me talking to 2 resplendent humans about it: Shirley Manson & Jackie Kay 💚✨💛. + MUCKLE FLUGGA~ * an Observer Book of the Year * shortlisted for Saltire Book Awards * shortlisted for The Arthurs Club Best First Novel Award 📚: linktr.ee/michaelpeder...

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Catch me talking about Muckle Flugga / Der letzte Leuchtturm on @arte.tv’s leading arts show TWIST. 📺 On TV in Germany and France tonight and on the arte.tv player now. With glances of glorious faces 💛👀: www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Tonight Glasgow you gallus lovers. I’m launching my paperback with the sublime Fern Brady at @waterstones.bsky.social Glasgow (Sauchiehall St). Just a speckling of tickets left 💜💚🧡 🎟️: www.waterstones.com/events/micha...

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

! 𝖬𝗎𝖼𝗄𝗅𝖾 𝖥𝗅𝗎𝗀𝗀𝖺 has been shortlisted for the 𝖠𝗎𝗍𝗁𝗈𝗋𝗌’ 𝖢𝗅𝗎𝖻 𝖡𝖾𝗌𝗍 𝖥𝗂𝗋𝗌𝗍 𝖭𝗈𝗏𝖾𝗅 𝖠𝗐𝖺𝗋𝖽 (alongside all these beauties) 🥳🥹💜💚🫀. @faberbooks.bsky.social 🧑🏼‍🎤 🌊✨📚 the UK’s longest running prize for debut fiction ❤️‍🔥💘

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Behold! 𝗗𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘇𝘁𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝘂𝗰𝗵𝘁𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗺 – the gorgeous German translation of Muckle Flugga out today with the mighty @dumontbuchverlag.bsky.social. ‘eigenwilliges und originelles’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO ‘kaleidoskophaftes’ OCEAN VUONG 📚: www.dumont-buchverlag.de/buch/michael...

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Tour poster galore 💚 come let’s cast those beams out into the darkness. The Muckle Flugga paperback tour is running over March and April. The likes of Fern Brady, Hollie McNish, Gordon Buchanan, & more, joining me along the way 💫✨. 🎟️: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

LOVERS. There is 25% off the Muckle Flugga paperback for a limited time only with the code: FEB26 at @waterstones.bsky.social 💚💚💚 📚: www.waterstones.com/book/muckle-...

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

From 2027, I’ll be curating Winter Words Festival for & with Alan Cumming & Pitlochry Festival Theatre. This year’s festival has now come to a triumphant close: Alan & the team have delivered with bravura. Having been at Winter Words in 2025 & 2026, I can’t extoll this festival enough. 💖💜💚

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

𝘖𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘮 – one from the archives of 𝓞𝔂𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻 in tribute to this day / this life of love. This book illustrated dazzlingly by a friend I love and miss abundantly, the great Scott Hutchison. Published in 2017 it’ll have a tenth anniversary next year. Yikes & slurp. 🦪🩵💙💚💜💛

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I am chatting to the glorious being @alancumming.bsky.social tonight at Pitlochry Festival Theatre for the opening event of Winter Word Festival 2026. What a luminary. 💜🩵💖💛💚 All but sold out expect for a few speckled seats. Come join the thrum: www.pitlochryfestivaltheatre.com/whats-on/in-...

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

26/03: London you gallus lovers. Here’s a launch event with all the thrills. Me & Hollie McNish at Book Bar hosted by It’s Hardback Out Here. A coddle of lushes. Come zest with our gang 💛💜💙💚 🎫: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ihoh-prese...

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Happy Burns Night ✨ I got to read Burns from St Giles’ Cathedral over NY on @cnn.com with Edinburgh Hogmanay. Auld Lang Syne is primarily about friendship, rekindling, reflecting, and toasting the future. A worthy vaunt 💚🩵

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Lovers! Both the Edinburgh (23/03) and Glasgow (25/03) launches for the Muckle Flugga paperback are fast filling. One under a starry planetarium, one in Scotland’s biggest bookshop. Fern Brady to Rachel Sermanni & lightbeams beyond. ‘Mon zest our way. 💛 🎟️: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Yikes & swoon! I’m on one of my very favourite podcasts: The Weirdos Bookclub with supreme beings / literary dreamboats Sara Pascoe & Cariad Lloyd. The full flourishing episode can be listened to in all your podcasts places now: www.plosive.co.uk/podcasts/wei... 💜💚💛🩵

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

On 01/01, me & Shirley Manson @garbage.com unfurled our cultural salon Muckle Be The Light. We were joined by @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social & Norman Blake to kick start the year. The whole event rang with notions of courage & joy – what a thrill to start the year surrounded by these gallant humans 💘🔥.

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Come kick start 2026 with swoon and tenderness at Portobello Town Hall. That’s for Edinburgh Hogmanay’s First Footin’ this January 1st. It’s nearly sold out / last tickets remaining. What a glorious coddle of wonder churners 💛💚🩵💖 🎟️: edwinterfest.com/hogmanay/wha...

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I finally saw The Importance of Being Earnest & saw Stephen Fry (the great human lighthouse) soar. If yer near London catch this show before it’s dreamdust & legend. It’ll play your heart like a flute. Stephen has been so generous with me & my novel this year and my gratitude is gigantic 💜💛💚.

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Chuffed to see Muckle Flugga as one of the glorious Matt Haig’s Books of the Year. Matt’s a sublime human & his writing gives people courage & hope. He was one of the first to read my novel and has been supremely championing ever since 💚🧡💚🧡. Paperback preorders open now: linktr.ee/michaelpeder...

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Behold my buttery lovers – the 𝑴𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒍𝒆 𝑭𝒍𝒖𝒈𝒈𝒂 𝒑𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌. It arrives in March 2026 but you can preorder it now (as say, a Christmas gift) 💚🧡. & remember, every time you preorder a book a baby lighthouse is born (and my heart does seven somersaults 🥰) 📚 : linktr.ee/michaelpeder...

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

💛 Glasgow you gallus lovers 💜 The Muckle Flugga paperback launch is on 25/03 with the phenomenal Fern Brady – one of my fav comedians and an extraordinary writer. Come watch us thrum and fizz together 💚💚💚💚. 🎫 : www.waterstones.com/events/micha...

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Edinburgh Lovers 💫 I offer thee a one-off spectacular: the launch of the 𝐌𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐞 𝐅𝐥𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝓤𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓼 of the planetarium on 23/03. I’ll be joined by 2 sublime sound makers that truly make my heart thrum: Rachel Sermanni & Janette Ayachi. Come soar 🎫: dynamicearth.org.uk/event/the-mu...

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Easy on the reins of the heart – it’s National Grief Awareness Week 2025. New grief, old grief, the anticipation of grief, the shouldering or witnessing of grief, grief by proxy, by package, by post. What a thing it is is love, miss, & to mourn. Here’s a new wee piece I’ve been tinkering with 💜💛🖤.

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Supremely chuffed to see Muckle Flugga named as Irvine Welsh’s Novel of 2025 in The Observer. ‘told in a poet’s lush but drum-tight voice…as arresting as an airport thriller’ 💜💚🥰💚💜. 📚: linktr.ee/muckleflugga @faberbooks.bsky.social

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Lush to be included in The List’s Hot 100. Chuffed to have done a cover feature with them earlier in the year for Muckle Flugga. Scotland is such a cultural powerhouse, for a relatively wee nation we produce some of the best art in the world. I’m forever swooning at the majesty of Scottish art 💜💛💚.

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Yes, me & Hollie went to the Christmas market. & yes, I was giddy to see this banner for Muckle Be The Light on 01/01 at Porty Town Hall with: Shirley Manson @garbage.com & @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social & Norman Blake + a pop up from @portybooks.bsky.social. Come ✨ 🎟️: edwinterfest.com/hogmanay/wha...

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Words of Muckle Flugga lushness from two of the world’s foremost storytellers. I absolutely adore Ocean Vuong and Irvine Welsh’s writing, to have their glistering critiques on my novel makes the heart do-so-do 💚💖💜💛. 📚 : linktr.ee/muckleflugga

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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

It’s Robert Louis Stevenson Day (this being his birthday). Here’s a wee snippet of the sublime Jack Lowden voicing the ghost of RLS in my novel Muckle Flugga. RLS serves as a life coach & confidant to the lighthouse keeper’s otherworldly son, Ouse. MF by JL audiobook available everywhere 🎧 📚💛💜

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