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I fell into that pavilion with the intense relief of diving into sleep after a broken night with a newborn…
There’d be a jacket design, a blurb on the back, table of contents at the front, and often not a…
After I’ve done my original work for the day, I type it all up. This might sound like an arduous…
No wonder it can be painful to make that cut. Those precious words are the unsuitable lover we’re obsessed with.…
The difference between the city and the countryside for me is that we tolerate imperfection, chaos and even ugliness in…
As lockdown hardened I discovered that my writing/life balance needed more balance. I missed the students and working through essays.…
Generous and complimentary reviews in the literary pages will pass unnoticed by your friends and relatives; one condescending remark will…
A Post-it note, a child’s drawing, even a prescription for folic acid never collected. I plot my life through the…
If I’d had to sum it up in a word – the motive force behind my writing – I might…
‘Welcome home Odysseus. I’m glad you finally made it back. I’m relieved that you had a bath and got yourself…
Thank you to Sister Marie Joseph, for reading us Bible stories every day, shining a light on a world of…
What she said helped, in part because of that careful use of tense: ‘When your first book is published, everything…
