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Miranda Keeling

@mirandakeeling.com

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Author. Actor. Observer of everyday life. https://www.mirandakeeling.com Buy my book: https://tinyurl.com/ycwdfphn Come to my book launch! https://tinyurl.com/3c9tavdh Listen to my podcast: https://StoppingToNotice.lnk.to/podcastho

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · Aug 10

I wrote a book! And I promise you'll love it 🤩
Here's what Philip Pullman says about it: 'This book is lovely - Miranda's observations are as sharp as ever, and in a strange way they seem to sharpen my own.'
Buy your copy here: geni.us/ThePlaceImin ❤️

A photo of the book in hardcover against a wooden background. The cover is a very light peach colour and has illustrations by Adam Beer of: a café in orange, a seagull and a girl with a kite in blue, a green pigeon, pink cow parsley and plastic bags and a yellow origami boat and leaves. The title is The place I’m in ‘WHAT I SEE WHEN I STOP TO NOTICE’ in black letters. It has this quote at the bottom ‘This Book is lovely’ by Philip Pullman.
A photo of the book in hardcover against a wooden background. The cover is a very light peach colour and has illustrations by Adam Beer of: a café in orange, a seagull and a girl with a kite in blue, a green pigeon, pink cow parsley and plastic bags and a yellow origami boat and leaves. The title is The place I’m in ‘WHAT I SEE WHEN I STOP TO NOTICE’ in black letters. It has this quote at the bottom ‘This Book is lovely’ by Philip Pullman.

A photo of a double-page spread of chapter heading ‘ON THE STREET’. The colour of the pages is blue, and the book is against a pink background. There are observations by me (the black text is too small for most people to read) and black-and-white illustrations by Adam Beer of: umbrellas in the rain, a puddle, the top of a double-decker bus, the side of a building and peoples’ legs and feet waiting in a bus queue.

A photo of a double-page spread from the chapter ‘IN A CAFÉ’. The colour of the left-hand pages is white, and the colour of the right-hand page is peach, and the book is against a pale-pink background. There are observations by me (the black text is too small for most people to read) and a black-and-white illustration on the left-hand page by Adam Beer, of two women talking in a café.

A photo of a double-page spread from the chapter 'AT THE PARK'. The colour of the pages is pink and the text is black and illustrations are in black and white. There are observations by me (the text is too small for most people to read I this image) and a black-and-white illustration on the left-hand page by Adam Beer, of a park with runners and trees, a close-up of a bush and a bee near a lavender flower. The right hand page has illustrations of a couple walking in a park from behind, a dachshund on a lead and a woman on a bicycle - facing away from us.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 27m

On this train, a pirate ship fights for its life in a raging storm on a man's seen-better-days, baggy t-shirt. A small, silver, hooped earring hides under his salt-and-pepper hair. Imprinted on his worn out face, etched echoes of experience jostle for recognition.

Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 15h

A man walking along Caledonian Road falls over onto a huge roll of bubble wrap that he is hugging, perhaps for just this sort of situation.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 15h

A woman on the tube, her beautiful silver hair cascading in waves over her vivid red cape, nods to herself as she reads a book about tigers.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 18h

Woman outside a florist pointing at some flowers: These are to die for aren’t they?
Her friend: Well, yes, I mean, they’re nice.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 19h

In the dim interior of a Thai restaurant, a woman in a yellow coat potters about. Vintage lamps are turned on in a nearby pub - their light softened by fringed shades. A purple velvet chair on the pavement has a sign on it that says ‘Free’. A man walking past says ‘Nice’ and bends to pick it up.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 19h

A woman pushes an enormously tall box along the Tube platform. It is attached to the trolley it’s on with crisscrossing ropes. She has tied her coat over the top, completing the illusion that there is an escapologist in the box, who’ll be out of it any second now. Or at least we hope so.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 22h

By a bus-stop, a box has been left, of beautiful blue thistles in cardboard tubes, a portable dried garden.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 22h

Exactly what I thought.

Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 22h

A woman is managing to walk through Hyde Park drinking a take-away coffee and walking two dogs and twins in a double buggy. If I had any winning-at-tricky-things awards in my pocket, I’d give her one. So I stop to tell her that - which is the next best thing.

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