Early last year, 56-year-old Anne Twist shared news on Instagram that she’d written her first children’s book, . The story about a badger wreaking havoc in Betty’s grandma’s vegetable garden wasn’t obvious viral hit material and yet her post received a massive 127,600 likes – four times as many as got on her post announcing she’d become prime minister.The comments were glowing. (‘Do I have children? No. Will I still be buying this? 100%.’) And the book did well offline, too. Last October, Waterstones included it in its Best Books of 2023 list alongside Zadie Smith’s and ’s . So why all the furore over a kids’ book? Because author Anne Twist is ’s mum.She’s the poster girl for a new brand of celebrity: the nepo parent. In 2022, everyone was suddenly obsessed with – children of celebs who get work because of their parents’ connections – as though this phenomenon wasn’t literally thousands of years old (I’m looking at you, Augustus Caesar). Now it seems the roles have reversed.
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