Are you one of those people who can always predict who did it in a murder mystery? Do you tend to spot the plot twists in a drama when you’ve barely set off down the track? I’m not like that. In fact, I’ve always been totally hopeless at it, not spotting clues until I’ve virtually stepped in them. But I…
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I knew that was going to happen.
Oh, the places you’ll go . . .
I’m going to Oxford and I am BEYOND excited about it! It won’t be my first trip to ‘the city of dreaming spires’ as poet Matthew Arnold described it. Around a dozen years ago I went with my husband for a mooch around. We stayed in Keble College in a undergraduate room just for the full authentic experience, and had…
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Life as a Writer in Lockdown.
It’s Monday 22nd February 2021 and in my part of the world we have been living under some form of restriction, either local or national, since 23rd March 2020. Currently we have been in full lockdown since Christmas and it looks like there will be at least two more weeks before anything is relaxed. Now, I’m not complaining. I am…
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Where do your ideas come from?
This is the most common question that any author is asked. Where do you get your ideas? Mine are mainly a product of what I have absorbed as I go through my daily life (which is why the coronavirus lockdown has been particularly tricky. There’s a limit to how much you can absorb when your life is so very quiet.)…
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School’s out!
It’s the last day of school for my kids, the end of the weirdest term that I can ever remember. Normally they would be celebrating with cups of hot chocolate in a café followed by the exchange of secret Santa gifts and time spent lolling around in bedrooms laughing about stuff that’s funny when you’re a teenager. But not this…
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