I have been doing A Lot of work connecting the memoir with its audience lately. This has been affirming and wonderful, while occasionally giving me material for my therapist when an interviewer asks a question I realise I need to go away and unpack. One of these was...
Any writer knows the most important review is the first one. You’ve spent all these years working on your manuscript, and, beyond managing to interest a publisher, you don’t know how it will be received. So I was surprised and delighted to receive this from Jan...
As a jiggly-bottomed girl who can’t do a cartwheel, reviewing a novel that focuses on competitive gymnastics drew some trepidation and perhaps a wobble around my middle. But the The Flyaway Girls is a well paced story for young girls aged between ten and fourteen. I...
From Good Reading magazine, February 2016 Four stars ‘… In Chelsea we see a character who is determined and goal-oriented to the point of obsession. It’s the sort of drive that an elite athlete needs, but sometimes, no matter how hard the person words, the goal isn’t...
