Travelling with my mother is unlike any other expedition. She is a whole destination without any sort of journey needed. So when she texted me the night before one of my most looked-forward-to and nerve-wracking trips of the year and said she’d made a ‘bag of light sandwiches’ for the train, I felt both comfortedContinue reading “One bag of light sandwiches, thirteen writers, buckets of tears, and an incredible coincidence.”
Monthly Archives: May 2016
An Escape Route
Tomorrow, 7th May, will be seventy-three years to the day since the incredible rescue of my Grandad Colin took place on the South Atlantic Sea, a rescue all the more profound because many years later it saved my small daughter’s life too. These events inspired my debut novel How to be Brave, a book IContinue reading “An Escape Route”
