In a housing crisis, we write about our toxic relationship with the concept of home

I read a passage of my book at an ‘Ode to House Shares’ event at Bard Books last week, along with two other debut authors (Silvia Saunders and Róisín…

Jul 22 • 

Alice Wilkinson

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May 2025

I live alone now - and my neighbours are like housemates

A hand-written note was stood by the door the day I picked up the keys to my new place.

May 19 • 

Alice Wilkinson

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March 2025

A book, launched

After submitting many, many drafts as word documents, it is a indescribably beautiful thing to hold my book in my hands.

Mar 17 • 

Alice Wilkinson

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January 2025

Playing House X Moya Lothian-McLean

How to Stay Sane in a House Share, a podcast

Jan 30 • 

Alice Wilkinson

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Moya Lothian-McLean

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48:01

Playing House: A Podcast

Listen now (38 mins) | I chat to my first guest Daisy Buchanan

Jan 23 • 

Alice Wilkinson

 and 

Daisy Buchanan

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37:49

December 2024

The pursuit of frictionless interactions

& life inside Britain's communes

Dec 21, 2024 • 

Alice Wilkinson

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November 2024

The science of leaping

with Joy Sullivan

Nov 13, 2024 • 

Alice Wilkinson

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My book - it's here!

I’m excited (and slightly terrified) to reveal the cover to my very first book, How to Stay Sane in a House Share. And to tell you that it’s now…

Nov 6, 2024 • 

Alice Wilkinson

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October 2024

Marcia Road / 2015

Before that house party, I’d never sat down to dinner with my four Marcia Road housemates or even watched TV with them.

Oct 22, 2024 • 

Alice Wilkinson

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May 2024

Why I'm attracted to trinket people

I grew up in a home where the window sills were covered in little treasures.

May 7, 2024 • 

Alice Wilkinson

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April 2024

‘I'm going slowly insane but I love my flat too much to move'

Last week, I put a call out to house sharers who have a predicament they want help with.

Apr 24, 2024 • 

Alice Wilkinson

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Dating in house shares is awkward

In the beginning, there’s the meeting the housemates for the first time.

Apr 9, 2024 • 

Alice Wilkinson

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