The Books of Lai Yin

On marriage, motherhood, sex, family, food, airports and the impossible work of holding a house.

Orbit 軌道

Life with gravity

Bali

On sex, pregnancy, children and wanting.

By Lai Yin 麗賢

/ 16 Jan 2026

Bali

Berlin

On hospitality, family, fundraising, and sex before breakfast.

By Lai Yin 麗賢

/ 11 Jan 2026

Berlin

Sydney

On Felix, sex, motherhood, and twenty years of asking who leads.

By Lai Yin 麗賢

/ 4 Jan 2026

Sydney

On marriage

Marriage is a really, really bad idea. Separation has been in the air we breathe since the beginning.

By Lai Yin 麗賢

/ 1 Dec 2025

On marriage

On c-section

Years after our daughters were born, I was still chasing a son. Conception wasn’t instant like it was with our daughters.

By Lai Yin 麗賢

/ 24 Nov 2025

On c-section

London

On why I don’t get to London often enough. Fish and chips on Notting Hill. Noodles and dumplings steaming in Chinatown. And the correct Brasier.

By Lai Yin 麗賢

/ 16 Nov 2025

London

Verona

On summer innocence, ice cream, first love, condoms and heartbreak.

By Lai Yin 麗賢

/ 14 Nov 2025

Verona

On my Father 父亲

He ruled the wok and the pot. He cooked tong from scratch with rice fluffy and hot and sweet. He pulled me out of abuse and hospitals and brought me home when I was lost.

By Lai Yin 麗賢

/ 9 Nov 2025

On my Father 父亲

On dad jokes

He teaches them how to stay in play when the world goes flat.

By Lai Yin 麗賢

/ 4 Nov 2025

On dad jokes

I am harbour

She didn’t come to visit. She came to nap. She lay down because my house holds. I am harbour.

By Lai Yin 麗賢

/ 2 Nov 2025

I am harbour

SHEHOLDS 她拿著

A publication about how women shape and hold the spaces around them.