Author Archives: Anna Blundy

About Anna Blundy

Honorary psychotherapist with a Masters in Psychoanalytic Theory and another in Psychodynamic Clinical Psychotherapy. Novelist - Author of the Faith Zanetti quintet - The Bad News Bible, Faith Without Doubt, Neat Vodka (US - Vodka Neat), Breaking Faith, My Favourite Poison. Also a memoir of my father, Every Time We Say Goodbye and my most recent thriller - The Oligarch's Wife

The Upside of a Very Anxious Time

Posted on March 29, 2020 by Anna Blundy

“Everybody’s anxious,” my friend messaged. “Everybody’s anxious.” It sounds true, I know. But it isn’t true. At least five of my hyper-anxious psychotherapy patients have been miraculously calmed by the whole planet acting out their inner drama on their behalf.  … Continue reading →

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The Best Soup of All Time Ever – A Georgio-Azero-Armenian Feast

Posted on January 20, 2020 by Anna Blundy

  This has become known as The Soup. I was in the car with my boyfriend a few months ago talking about what we were going to eat (he is Italian and takes food very seriously indeed, often just closing … Continue reading →

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Claudia’s Chicken Salad, Sailing (who knew?), The Moretti Advert, Divorce, Kenya 25 Years Later and The Brothers Karamazov

Posted on July 26, 2019 by Anna Blundy

  Photos: Me IN A HAMMOCK, ON A BOAT happy as a clam in Cervia, Bagno Samuele where Lev works, Me and Cath on the beach in Mombasa (I know we look like girls out of college but this one … Continue reading →

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Four Recipes, a Wedding and a Funeral

Posted on September 8, 2018 by Anna Blundy

Four Recipes, a Wedding and a Funeral (Wedding photo left to right – James, Hope, Lily, Me, Samira, Charlotte, Steve, Grace – kneeling in front Lev, Murdo) (Dogs: Blue and the last ever photo of Marmite, taken four days before … Continue reading →

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Potato Skins, Mary Magdalene, Lucca Homeless Lunches, the Book I’m Writing (and having been thinking about for nearly ten years) plus Other Stuff

Posted on March 18, 2018 by Anna Blundy

Potato Skins, Mary Magdalene, Lucca Homeless Lunches, the Book I’m Writing and Other Stuff It’s been ages. If I’m writing I need to be writing a book – it’s about simultaneous interpretation, identity and Stalin. Hmm. That’s not a very … Continue reading →

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Perimenopause, HRT, Sexual Harassment, Misogynistic Abuse from Peter Hitchens? Who’d be Female? Also, a Lemon Cake.

Posted on November 5, 2017 by Anna Blundy

Perimenopause, HRT, Sexual Harassment, Misogynistic Abuse from Peter Hitchens? Who’d be Female? Also, a Lemon Cake. Sexual harassment stuff – beyond depressing. And it is complicated by the fact that my generation grew up watching Benny Hill and The Generation … Continue reading →

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The Draining Narcissism of Yoga, Best Cheesecake Ever, Fuck Unsolicited Advice/Information

Posted on September 17, 2017 by Anna Blundy

  Look, I know I will be losing friends like….I don’t know, lemmings off a cliff or something, but I just really hate the thing of yoga. I’ve done yoga – good stretching. Quite liked it. Almost everyone I know … Continue reading →

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Dreams of Trump, Hot Hot Hot, Salsa Verde, Prawns and Peas, Easy Pomegranate Chicken with Kasha

Posted on August 5, 2017 by Anna Blundy

Dreams of Trump, Hot Hot Hot, Salsa Verde, Prawns and Peas, Easy Pomegranate Chicken with Kasha Okay, so it’s hot at La Casa Rosa. Really fucking hot. 41 degrees in a high mountain village, five degrees hotter down in Lucca … Continue reading →

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Sorting People on the Basis of Their Genitalia, Legal Definitions of Madness, Painting the Kitchen, Coconut Milk Panna Cotta and Almond Fruit Tart

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Anna Blundy

    I drove to Florence to meet an old friend and his daughter. They had come in this kind of hellish way to spend two days sightseeing in the blistering heat with a billion other tourists. Even Florence is … Continue reading →

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Instant Curry, Shepherd’s Pie, Apricot muffins and No Rambling – just the food

Posted on July 6, 2017 by Anna Blundy

  I spend most of my time up this Italian mountain making curry. Anything that tastes of SOMEthing. This is my quick curry recipe. Takes ten minutes, always delicious. So, if there are going to be three big onions in … Continue reading →

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