Books
Click on the book covers to find out more about each book, or use the links to treat yourself (or someone else). All three of my novels will be published by the marvellous Snowbooks - The Letters in March '09, The Blue Handbag in Aug '09, and Thaw in Feb '10.
The Letters - a
novel (2009)
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Violet Ackerman has drifted through a career, four children and a divorce without ever knowing who she is or what she wants. After moving to the coast, she starts receiving a series of mysterious letters sent from a mother and baby home in 1959, written by a pregnant twenty-year-old Elizabeth to her best friend. These letters intersperse Violet's turbulent relationships with her lover, her infuriating son and the eccentric fellow members of the Village Committee. Who is sending Violet these letters, and why? What will happen to Elizabeth's baby? 'The Letters' invites us see what happens when we don't run away. Will love be enough to encourage Violet to stay?
small stones: a year of moments (2008)
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Do you ever find yourself rushing through your days with no time to pause and look around you? Do you pay attention to the aroma of your coffee? Do you notice pigeons gulping from puddles?
This book contains 365 'small stones' - bite-sized truffles of poetry celebrating the extraordinary in the everyday and the ordinary. It will remind you to slow down and engage with your own world, because right here and right now is where the wonder is.
A Year of Questions: How to slow down and
fall in love with life (2007) more
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These everyday ordinary things happen to us all. This book helps us to discover what we can learn from them. It encourages us to wonder why we hate our boss, and why we keep spending too much money. It invites us to look at the ball of string between our ears and start to untangle it. It nudges us into slowing down, paying more attention, waking up.
As well as the hoovering, life is also about seeing a vase of yellow tulips lit up from behind, making creamy potatoes au gratin for your family, sitting by the sea and watching the waves twinkle. `A Year of Questions' will help you to fall in love with your life all over again.
Living Things (2007)
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My first poetry collection.
Read about frogs, jam, a man called Douglas Black, trainspotters, a small dog called Charlie, spiders, unrequited love, doughnuts and more.