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A new year that changed me

Writers look back to the end of year celebrations that turned their lives around

31 December 2017

  • Wales, Pembrokeshire, two people walking on Pendine Sands,June 2003

    A new year that changed me: a sexual awakening, and a lesson in loss

    Alice O'Keeffe
    Will and I peeped over the wall into adulthood – little knowing the sadness that lay in wait there, writes the freelance literary critic and journalist Alice O’Keeffe

29 December 2017

  • Game Plan: Boardgames RediscoveredMonopoly Artist: Waddingtons Date: 1936-39 Credit line: Victoria and Albert Museum, London Special terms: Default terms and conditions

    The fiercely fought board game that nearly cost me a friend

    Jack Bernhardt
  • Seamus Heaney, with his wife Marie Devlin, at their home in Dublin. Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 for what the Nobel committee described as “works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past”

    A new year that changed me: when Seamus Heaney came round for tea

    Conor O'Callaghan

2 January 2017

  • Passing a joint

    A new year that changed me: I gave up weed – and became a book addict instead

    Kit de Waal
    Spurred on by a stranger, I took my last drag of a spliff before the clock struck 12. And I found the perfect way to fill it

1 January 2017

  • The New Year’s Eve rave that Craig and Lilly attended in Thailand

    The day violent thugs were driven out by hippies with glowsticks

    Craig Stone
    When my girlfriend was groped on the dancefloor I had to do something. But how could I take on five aggressive men?

31 December 2016

  • Katy Brand holiday photo

    I spent new year by myself in Sharm el-Sheikh. I’ve never felt happier

    Katy Brand
    In 2007, after my cul-de-sac of a relationship came to an end, I decided to take my first holiday alone. I discovered that I was excellent company

30 December 2016

  • Lyburn cheese

    A new year that changed me: my partner said I would publish a book – so I had to

    Annie Freud
    After the new year announcement to friends, I panicked and suffered writer’s block. It was broken by an absurd dream about rare cheese

29 December 2016

  • Preparing heroin

    A new year that changed me: realising I wanted to live, and giving up heroin

    Anonymous
    The New Year’s Eve I spent with my family when I was a junkie was horrific. But their contempt for the state I was in helped me to finally change

28 December 2016

  • Coco Khan

    A new year that changed me: when my mum was star of the dancefloor

    Coco Khan
  • Waitress carrying dirty plates in restaurant, rear view

    What’s your New Year resolution? This can be the cruellest question

    Linda Tirado

27 December 2016

  • Bottle of champagne with streamers

    The New Year’s Eve party when a bad fairy turned into a good friend

    Deborah Levy
    Amid root canal agonies and a spontaneously combusting phone, the party also brought an inspiring – if unlikely – new friend
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