The Irish Rectory, The Holiday, and Bath Man
My childhood home was a rambling rectory deep in the Irish countryside. The arrival of the postman was a very significant event, as was the occasional appearance of a bat, but more of that...
Category: My Books
Lovely new covers on homepage, thanks Simon!
Very grateful to Simon, from Cloud Nine Consulting, who helped me out and put the new covers on my homepage and linked some of them to Amazon. He also, very kindly, did a wee...
NEW COVERS!
Only saw these new covers today when I checked my emails, what a FAB surprise! Hadn’t even known they were in the offing. Thank you Accent Press! They were particularly welcome this morning because...
Rosie, the Adorable (and Wise) Pet Pig
So thrilled that my German publishers, Fischer, have come up with such a fabulous new cover for the German edition of ‘Ordinary Miracles’ (‘Rosie oder Die Angst vor der Liebe’). Book details here at...
Characters
When I first met Ava Lavelle I didn’t like her. I thought she was a bossy, highly opinionated woman in her seventies and that her awfulness would be entertaining….she was, after all, a fictional...
Translation: ‘Rosie oder Die Angst vor der Liebe’
My novel ‘Ordinary Miracles’ is now available in German…and yes, that is the German title in the headline of this blog! The eBook has been published by Fischer…SO pleased! Click here for the Amazon...
Characters
‘When I first met Ava Lavelle I didn’t like her. I thought she was a bossy, highly opinionated woman in her seventies and that her awfulness would be entertaining….she was, after all, a fictional...
FREE EBOOK ON ITUNES!
My novel ‘Wise Follies’ is FREE on Itunes for the whole month of August. It’s about the search for Mr Wonderful, and much more… Free ebook click here At some point want to post...
NOVELS AND CHARACTERS
Wow weren’t the Olympics great! I loved the ebullient opening ceremony which contained just the right amount of strangeness, passion and depth. Somehow those fabulous athletes reminded me of things I should do in...
Bake A Book Jacket!
One of the lovely presents my niece Ruth Wynne-Jones gave me this Christmas was a very special biscuit decorated to look like the jacket of one of my novels! (The second paperback printing of...
Knitting By The Lake
‘I am a forty eight year old woman who loves books and I have read zillions in my life. My husband has never heard me laugh out loud as much or cried as I...
The X Factor and the rhino
‘The belly-laugh being a rare enough commodity on this planet, this promises to be one of my favourite novels of the year…very very funny.’ In Dublin re. ‘Ordinary Miracles’ Found some bargains in the...
Finding Your Own Writing Voice
If you’d sat me down after I wrote my first novel and asked me how I did it I wouldn’t have been able to give you cut and dried answers. What happened was a...
Cat Charisma
Found myself doing some genealogical research recently and understand why so many people are enthralled by it. Had to virtually prise myself away from the computer and into the kitchen with bribe of digestive...
Some Simple Pleasures
Savouring simple pleasures adds a sparkle to ho hum days when one longs to be under an olive tree eating figs. Of course it would be great if life felt glorious every day and...
‘Ready Or Not?’ Quote
“It would have helped her to know that lots of people feel like this, but like lots of people she believed her feelings were so odd they must surely be unique. There was a...
