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The Weakly

A Bitter Sweet running experience

Hattie Williams has written a stunning novel that explores ideas of running through its troubled protagonist

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Raziq Rauf
Jul 07, 2025

Writing about running with Hattie Williams

This week sees the release of Bitter Sweet, the debut novel from Hattie Williams, an old friend of mine from London. It’s not a book about running, per se, (it’s a torrid rite of passage tale of a young publishing assistant getting caught up in a compellingly uneven relationship) but it is a book by a runner tha…

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