Charlotte Wood: It was like I had acid poured on my whole life but in a good way Australian books

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• The U.S. Marshals Service Releases A Statement
• Four law enforcement officers killed while serving warrant in North Carolina
• Kate Middleton, Prince William escape to vacation home with kids amid her cancer battle
• Newsletters
• Father's Day
• Charlotte Wood: ‘It was like I had acid poured on my whole life … but in a good way’

The Weekend is more Big Chill than Handmaid’s Tale, with a dash of Big Little Lies and an echo of Atwood’s The Robber Bride. Wood uses the classic theatrical set-up of a house party to concentrate tension in a tight space. The novel was both sharply contemporary and timeless in its portrayal of women under duress. Wood perfectly captured the zeitgeist, anticipating not only the TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, but the entire #MeToo movement. When the royal underwent abdominal surgery in January, she was diagnosed with cancer. Notably, Middleton was not behind the camera for the heavily-edited family photo released on Mother’s Day in March, but she did apologize via X for the Photoshop job.

The U.S. Marshals Service Releases A Statement

That sense of mortality – and the closeness of it – ripples through Wood’s remarkable tenth book, Stone Yard Devotional. For Wood, 2022 was a time of “being totally removed from your normal things, your normal certainty”. It’s easy enough to connect this sense of openness to her artistic practice. There’s less anxiety in her writing now, she says (being ten books in doesn’t hurt), and with Stone Yard Devotional she wanted “to give a lot of space, have unanswered questions”.

Four law enforcement officers killed while serving warrant in North Carolina

Officers returned fire, and the gunman was later reported dead. “He fought for several hours and passed away from his injuries with his wife and family by his side tonight,” Chief Jennings said in a statement posted to social media on Monday evening. “I am truly grateful for his bravery, service and ultimate sacrifice,” he said. "I am deeply saddened by the shooting that occurred," Vi Lyles, Charlotte's mayor, said on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

Kate Middleton, Prince William escape to vacation home with kids amid her cancer battle

"And he certainly dedicated his life and gave his life to serve our citizens." "Happy 9th Birthday, Princess Charlotte! 🎂Thank you for all of the kind messages today," the caption stated, along with photo credit to the Princess of Wales. An additional four officers were injured; three have been discharged from the hospital, while the fourth is in stable condition. Hughes was then arrested in June 2012 after a high-speed chase.

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She’s hanging out for her traditional week in the house with her wealthy lover after the women leave. Many writers stall at the challenge of how to proceed from such acclaim. The Weekend, her sixth novel, returns to the qualities that had already built an admiring readership for her earlier books while being a more domesticated sister to its wild predecessor. For readers who discovered Wood through The Natural Way of Things, her new novel, The Weekend, may surprise. Those who relished the brilliant dystopia about a disparate group of young women imprisoned in the Australian desert to protect their sexual abusers might expect another diatribe against misogyny. Those who shied away from the bleak fable will wonder if they can open their eyes.

"I’m broke, like, I live paycheck to paycheck because of rent, so just keep the cheaper prices," Spring pleaded. "It's gonna go through the roof and no one's gonna wanna live here anymore," renter Delaney Spring said about Charlotte apartment prices. While Wood seems to move between the symbolic and real in her novels – or those, to use her words, stories that are “in the world” and “out of them” – Stone Yard Devotional feels like a new frontier for the author. Wood’s novels have long resonated with readers, and are familiar fixtures on the Miles Franklin and Christina Stead Prize for Fiction shortlists. “I felt like we, our life, and our family had had some kind of acid thrown over it, and that then kind of burnt away all the inessential things,” Wood says.

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The U.S. Marshals Service released a statement shortly after the incident. "Our hearts are heavy tonight for the lives shattered by today's horrific shooting in Charlotte, NC. We mourn the loss of our Deputy and two Task Force Officers," they wrote on X. "We are grateful for all the support, and we keep the families and colleagues of all officers involved, in our thoughts." The city's police chief announced Monday night that a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer who had been wounded, Joshua Eyer, had also died. Marshals task force was serving a warrant at a home Monday in Charlotte, North Carolina, officials said.

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That same month, three officers in Baton Rouge, La., were killed, and three others were wounded in what the authorities described as an “ambush.” The gunman was killed during a shootout. Charlene Middleton, a 36-year-old school counselor, has lived in the area her whole life and, since 2015, in a home across the street from where the incident occurred. When she returned home from work in the evening, she said, she saw casings scattered all over the street, as well as a large police presence. The assault only ended after police stormed the home by using armored vehicles to breach inside. Photos have been shared to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, showing the enormous damage done to the home. The release of Princess Charlotte’s birthday portrait continued a longstanding royal tradition.

Charlotte Wood: ‘It was like I had acid poured on my whole life … but in a good way’

On Princess Charlotte’s actual birthday, the royal parents released a second snap. Kate Middleton and Prince William shared a new photo to mark their daughter's last single-digit birthday on May 2. James Crawford-Smith is Newsweek's royal reporter, based in London. You can find him on X (formerly Twitter) at @jrcrawfordsmith and read his stories on Newsweek's The Royals Facebook page.

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Her regal curtsies and composure during these appearances have won her praise online and a growing fan base among royal watchers. Stone Yard Devotional offers line-by-line writing that haunts, and descriptions and ways of seeing the world that linger. Ideas of “rightness”, “risk” and “belonging” are further explored when the skeletal remains of a murdered nun are returned to the compound from Thailand, where she had moved to work with battered women. As I grew into my twenties, then thirties […] I began to understand how rare such a simple and powerful trust had been. I wished again that I had been able to say any of this to her when she lived. Virginia’s chapter of the NAACP might take Gov. Glenn Youngkin to court over an alleged failure to respond to public records requests.

"I ask that all Charlotteans keep them, and the other injured officers, and their families in your thoughts and prayers during this incredibly difficult time." In a shift from tradition, Prince William and Princess Kate released both Louis and Charlotte’s latest birthday photos on their actual birthdays. Until now, the couple almost always published celebratory portraits on the eve of their children’s birthdays, often taken by Kate, who is known for her photography hobby.

On Monday, William and Kate shared a previously unseen image from their wedding—taken by Millie Pilkington—to mark their 13th anniversary. The couple shared a portrait of Louis on April 23, also taken by Kate, to celebrate his sixth birthday. The royal couple has maintained their social media presence in recent weeks, sharing a number of personal images. Sister Jenny, a dear friend to some of the compound residents, was the victim of gender-based violence.

“I’m less and less certain, the older I get, about how to do the right thing,” she says. “I understand the appeal of running away.” She pauses for the familiar overhead roar of a plane taking off, or coming in. The never-before-seen snap comes one week after the Prince and Princess of Wales shared a shot of Prince Louis for his 6th birthday. Kate Middleton and Prince William celebrated their daughter’s birthday by sharing an adorable new photo of the young one on Thursday. In July 2022, Charlotte and William took to X to wish the England women's national football team, aka the Lionesses, good luck before its match against Germany in the UEFA Women's EURO 2022 tournament.

The family has taken some time away from the spotlight as Kate undergoes “preventative chemotherapy” for an undisclosed type of cancer. On March 22, the Princess shared a video message in which she revealed she had been diagnosed following a planned abdominal surgery. Wood’s plot brings together three women, longtime friends in their 70s, for three days over Christmas at the beach house owned by a fourth woman who has died. They are there not to celebrate but to empty the house for sale.

PEOPLE understands that the Prince and Princess of Wales shared the photo to acknowledge well-wishers who reached out to wish their son a happy birthday. The violence broke out as the task force was serving a warrant on a suspect in possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The subject, who was not publicly identified, began shooting with a high-powered rifle, Jennings said. Task force members returned fire and killed the suspect in the home's front yard, he said. As the police approached the shooter, Chief Jennings told reporters, the officers were met with more gunfire from inside the home. After a long standoff, two women in the home were taken to a police station to be interviewed, the police later said in a statement.

Along with the junk they unearth old conflicts – and a big secret. HuffPost believes news should be accessible to everyone, regardless of their ability to pay for it. Any contribution you can make — even as little as $2 — goes directly toward supporting the impactful journalism that we will continue to produce this year. "We mourn for them and their loved ones. And we pray for the recoveries of the courageous officers who were wounded," the president said in a statement. He also called for more funding for law enforcement and for Congress to do more to combat gun violence. In February, two police officers and a paramedic were killed near Minneapolis after a man, who was barricaded in his home, opened fire on the police.