Does what you read affect how you write?I've just finished reading The Woman in the Picture by Katharine McMahon. This novel, following the life of a female lawyer, Evelyn Gifford, in the 1920s London, is written from the point of view of the heroine and very much in a formal style of the time.I … [Read more...]
Oh to be in England – Part Three
This is an excerpt from my diary started just weeks after I married the Englishman and moved to the UK.Previous posts can be found here.19.08.1984I have this problem with men. To me, a man, a husband, should be perfect in every way. He should understand me inside out and always say the right thing … [Read more...]
Oh to be in England – Part Two
This is an excerpt from my diary just weeks after I married the Englishman and moved to the UK.26 June 1984Financial Advisers, or brokers, what are they? Bold people with hearts of solid gold, dollar signs in their eyes and veins running with icy water. And there they were giving a lecture on … [Read more...]
Oh to be in England – Part One
I may not have told you that I'm planning to publish How I Came to be in England, a series of blog posts, which so caught the imagination of many of you, as a digital book. (I am eternally grateful for all you readers who left such beautiful comments during the months that I wrote those blog posts. … [Read more...]
