Back from the Dead

Back from the Dead

BACK FROM THE DEAD I was quite a morbid child. I was obsessed with the concept of ‘not being’. I wasn’t ‘wanting to be dead’, I was merely amazed by the idea that my intense sense of consciousness could ever simply ‘not be’. I used to shut my eyes, hide under the...
Writing about What You Don’t Know

Writing about What You Don’t Know

WRITING ABOUT WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW New writers are often advised to ‘write what you know’. Which I totally did for my first novel THE DAUGHTER, setting it in North London where I live, and featuring a self-doubting protagonist, who was eerily like me! But for my...