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A new start

  • Viv Albertine

    A new start: Viv Albertine on how a house move led to a band, a book – and a divorce

  • Phil Wang

    A new start: Phil Wang on how a coffee grinder with 12 settings changed his life

  • Jilly Cooper home in Gloucestershire

    A new start: Jilly Cooper on the night in a Kama Sutra room that led to her book Riders

  • Guy Gunaratne

    A new start: Guy Gunaratne on how painting gives him courage to write more freely

  • Judy Murray

    A new start: Judy Murray on the 'baby Buddhist' who cured her terror of public speaking

    The tennis coach had always found conferences intimidating – until a workshop on women in sport inspired her to step outside her comfort zone
  • A Libyan refugee

    A new start: the best photographs to usher in 2019

    Tomorrow is a new year, but fresh starts don’t obey the calendar. Here, six photographers reflect on a time when life shifted on its axis.
  • Lou Sanders (left) aged 25

    A new start: Lou Sanders on the moment a friend called out her negativity

    A few home truths helped save the standup from a lifetime of misery
  • Esi Edugyan in Ghana in 2006

    A new start: Esi Edugyan on meeting her grandmother on her only trip to Ghana

  • Suzi Ruffell

    A new start: Suzi Ruffell on growing up dyslexic and discovering the joy of writing

  • Sarah Hall at the shortlist announcement for the 2017 Man Booker prize

    A new start: Sarah Hall on trauma and the unexpected tonic of extreme reading

  • Ahir Shah and his girlfriend, Joy, on holiday

    A new start: the moment Ahir Shah saw his father's face in the mirror

  • Jess Phillips with one of her sons

    A new start: Jess Phillips on her decision to stop feeling envious

  • Piers Torday

    A new start: Piers Torday on how Judy Garland helped him to come out

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