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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
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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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