Catherine Balavage Yardley

Built this over the weekend with my children. My daughter loves cats. 🐈‍⬛ It’s so adorable. #cats #lego #legocat

The saddest thing about Virginia Giuffre is that she was a victim of SA and trafficking before she even met Epstein. She went to Mar-a-Lago in the hope of a better life. It was a new beginning. Then Ghislaine Maxwell spotted her.

It’s been a year since my second novel, Where The Light is Hottest, came out. What a ride! It’s an essential read on the acting industry. #acting #writingcommunity

This is the most controversial thing I have ever posted. Do you dog ear books? Please don’t hate me. #runsawayscared #writingcommunity #booktok #booksbooksbooks
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Can you ever walk away from someone you love, or do some fires never die out? #writingcommunity #author

father starts to creep back into their lives and family tensions resurface, affecting her relationship with her boyfriend, Rob. Will the couple find their way back to each other, and can a family that has been torn apart ever heal their wounds?

the past thirty years later. As Natalie’s younger sister, Amanda, prepares for marriage and impending motherhood, her plea for the family to reunite uncovers pent-up tension and animosity. Can they forget the past and become a family again? Natalie’s life begins to unravel as their

A love story about inter-generational childhood trauma that starts with grand theft auto. A romance that reads like a thriller. A book that has a 4.49 rating on Goodreads. Yes, I am proud of my debut. A family torn apart by their father’s infidelity are forced to confront

The author: Catherine Yardley 👋🏻 The first page, and the cover.

The highs and lows of publishing.
Received my latest royalty statement (yah!), followed by a horrible rejection 😭 Shall keep calm and carry on. #writinglife #writingcommunity

Why is the Co-op so expensive? What does it think it’s got going for it?

It can be hard to believe in the world right now. With the Epstein files and other things. We should never lose hope. There is still goodness in this world. We can be the change we want to see in the world.

I’ll deal with the stress of half term in my own way: with champagne day drinking and eating my own body weight in chocolate. Don’t worry. The kids are having fun too 😉😂

Theory: adverts are the new social media. With short breaks for personal posts.

What is with all of the super long adverts on social media? It takes me longer to read them than to scroll back to my date of birth.

Last Valentine’s Day I celebrated a little too hard and now I have a scorpion. #valentines #ohbaby

‘Mum, when I’m your age, you’ll be dead, but I will still love you,’ my 10-year-old. Happy Valentine’s everyone. 😂❤️

Happy Valentine’s Day. I hope it is full of love. I’m over here stuffing myself full of chocolate. #valentines

Sorry I’m late. I didn’t want to be here.

The gorgeousness. #cats #bengal

I’m in this weeks Take a Break magazine. #WritingCommunity #freelancewriter

‘I love you and I love me, but sometimes I need to be alone,’ my four-year-old.

SEND ALL EMERGENCY SERVICES 😭😭😱🥹

It’s the same.

We made an upside down pineapple cake. OMG it was amazing 🤩 #cake #upsidedownpineapplecake #baking #bakingwithkids

Epstein was in and out of Russia every few months according to his travel documents, but Mandelson was partying in nightclubs in St Petersburg and regularly in Moscow.

How did our intelligence services fail to pick this up? Or were their reports and investigations suppressed?

Where The Light is Hottest offers an unflinching look at the brutal film industry, tracing Natasha Jones’s journey from a small-town Scottish life to Oscar-winning stardom. The story delves into themes of ambition, betrayal, and resilience. The perfect #metoo #acting book. #bookrecommendations📚❣️

If you love Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Comeback by Ella Berman, and The Real Deal by Caitlin Devlin. Then you will love Where The Light is Hottest by Catherine Yardley. As featured in The Sunday Times.

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If anyone has a good idea what to do with the leftover wool I would appreciate it. Has to be easy 😂 #craftideas #leftoverwool

There has been a fair amount of writing and editing this week. Yet my most important project was making this bag with my daughter. I’m not a natural crafter. It seemed impossible at the start. We persevered and after more sewing than I cared for, we now have a cute cat bag. #parenting #craft #sewing