by Lauren Liebenberg | Jul 31, 2014 | Suburban Survival
This article was featured in The Sunday Times and All4Women So … There I am, my right cheek squashed against a perspex screen, my torso twisted at an awkward angle to my hips, my calf muscles quivering from a balancing en pointe for so long. “Can you just lean in a...
by Lauren Liebenberg | Jun 26, 2014 | Bra Bonfires
So, starting a new business, just hacking my way through the red tape with a sharpened machete, when yesterday I was presented with the CM27 form (click to enlarge it) Now I know what you’re thinking … You’re thinking that this a joke, right? A lame one. Like those...
by Lauren | Mar 31, 2014 | Bra Bonfires
This article was originally featured on Women24 and another version in the Wits Business School Journal. The mother of all impediments to women’s quest for equality – and quality of life, for all In the so-called “mummy wars” fought in school car parks and beside...
by Lauren Liebenberg | Mar 18, 2014 | Suburban Survival
I am off next week to Morocco. Casablanca, if you read between the lines of Lonely Planet, is twinned with the lavatories of Hades, whose list of redeeming features includes only the road out of it – which we shall be taking, south to the Sahara, which sounds almost...
by Lauren Liebenberg | Mar 16, 2014 | Bra Bonfires
An abridged version of this blog post first appeared as an essay in a collection published by one of my publishers, Virago, “Virago is forty”. Download your free e-book here or from Amazon.com: In the geography of a woman’s life, forty is a fault-line – that...
by Lauren Liebenberg | Mar 16, 2014 | Writing
This blog first appeared as a guest post on Penguin’s Classy Bird Blog another version (on writing as psychosis) was featured in The Sunday Times. I am often asked about my writing process; from what inspires my novels, to what extent I map out my plots in advance, to...
